#mathematics

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#concern #condition #convey #fear #fun

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#belong #culture #mathematics #particular #rhythm

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#i #mathematics #resigned #spring #through

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#best #clearly #conclusion #did #finally

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. ↗

— James Newman

#about #after #away #being #far

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ↗

— James Newman

#compares #does #doing #else #groups

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#everything #fiction #history #i #mathematics

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#course #expected #i #interesting #languages

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. ↗

— George Boole

#ideas #mathematics #number #quantity