#mathematician

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

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From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. ↗

— James Jeans

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For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

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Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

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I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

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