#mathematical

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#design #emotional #exact #eyebrows #give

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

#dose #doubts #hath #mathematical #need

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#bother #eccentric #follow #interpretation #lines

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#basic #cultures #dna #find #galaxy

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#approach #bother #cannot #constructing #describe

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#cannot #mathematical #really #theorem

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. ↗

— David Hilbert

#complete #considered #explain #first #made

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments