Antoine Lavoisier Quotes

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

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.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

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.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

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

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.

I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

I would say out of all the things I studied growing up, math was probably one of the things that I liked the least.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.