Marvin Minsky Quotes

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.

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.

I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

I enjoyed like nothing else working in pure math, discovering new formulas.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

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 love math.

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

In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.

No one wants to read a math book.

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

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

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

I was never good at math.

I really like maths.

I absolutely hate math!

The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason - these are very important.

I am bad at numbers and math. Always was!

The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.