mathematical skill Quotes

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

"Can you do Addition?" the White Queen said. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted.

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

I'm not a math-head.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

I'm an expert in higher level math. You + God = Enough