Mathematical Quotes Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention, which are, in my opinion more interesting

than the inventions themselves. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, inventor of calculus and the binary number system In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. -George Cantor (1845-1918), created set theory, wrote the theorem of an infinity of infinities, and created the theory of transfinite numbers Mathematics knows no race or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. - David Hilbert, number theorist who presented 23 mathematical problems for the 20th century Everyone knows that it is easy to do a puzzle if someone has told you the answer. That is simply a test of memory. You can claim to be a mathematician only if you can solve puzzles that you have never studied before. That is the test of reasoning. -W. W. Sawyer, (1911-2008) a mathematician who studied applications to engineering and sciences A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. -G. H. Hardy, number theorist and mentor of Srinivasa Ramanujan

Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences. Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of the world. -Roger Bacon It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity. -George Boole 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. - Albert Einstein Mathematicians, having congregated from the whole world, awarded because of outstanding writings. -inscription on the back of the Fields Medal Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician. - Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two

sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection. - Joseph Louis Lagrange