MATHEMATICIAN QUOTES

Archimedes of Syracus (287-212 B. C. E)

• Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.
• Eureka, euraka!
• Don't spoil my circles! (or Do not disturb my circles!)
• There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Geoge Cantor (1845-1918)

• The essence of mathematics is its freedom.
• I see it, but I don't believe it.
• Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.
• In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
• every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

• So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.
• I don't believe in mathematics.
• God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
• Nature to him (Newton) was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
• Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
• Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.