Terence Tao Quotes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

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

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

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

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

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.

Math was always my best subject growing up.

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.

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 got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

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 certainly wouldn't pay for a ticket to watch a math equation.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

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

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.

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.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.