The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Mathematics is as old as Man.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.