Jerry McNerney Quotes

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

Maths is the language of science.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

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

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

Algebras deal not with laws of number, but with such laws of the human thinking machinery as have been discovered in the course of investigations on numbers. Plane geometry deals with such laws of thought as were discovered by men intent on finding out how to measure surface; and solid geometry with such additional laws of thought as were discovered when men began to extend geometry into three dimensions.

God Bless Theoretical Mathematics And May It Never Be Of Use To Anyone

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

I really like maths.

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics?

I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don't mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.

I think math is exciting, you know.

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.