#theorem

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#men #old #old men #prove #should

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. ↗

— Albert Camus

#any #enough #faith #force #insure

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. ↗

— Stefan Banach

#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling. ↗

— Bill Evans

#because #bugs #children #explain #feeling

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#arithmetic #arranging #convenient #mathematical #method

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. ↗

— James Meade

#douglas #economics #expression #gradually #major

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#conventional wisdom #counter #economists #like #often