A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.