Lloyd Shapley Quotes

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

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

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

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

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?

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.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

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.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

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

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

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.