The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.