#thematic

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

#certain #game #marks #mathematics #meaningless

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

#being #contrary #favor #geometry #grace

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#been #difficulties #future #mathematics #mistakes

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#enough #keep #left #mathematicians #them

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#anybody #because #conversations #else #field

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ends #like #magnificence #mathematics #nile

The mathematics is not there till we put it there. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#put #till

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human thought #ladder #mathematician #reached

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. ↗