Ethan Canin Quotes

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

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.

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

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

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

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.

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.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

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

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

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.

You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.

Math was always my best subject growing up.