Marcus du Sautoy Quotes

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

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.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

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

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

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

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

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.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

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

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.