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Mathematician Quotes - Page 2

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Richard Courant (1948). “Lectures on the theory of functions”

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Martin Gardner (1961). “The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, a new selection”

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.641, Modern Library

My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

"David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard Hudson (2010). “The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward”, p.41, Profile Books

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

"A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

"The answer man". Interview with Steve Springer, www.espn.co.uk. March 24, 2010.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

Isaac Barrow (1734). “The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge”, p.32

Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.289, Ballantine Books