Top Mathematicians Quotes
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Henri Poincare
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
James C. Maxwell
Stephen Cole Kleene 
Henri Poincare 
Daniel Bernoulli 
Abraham Robinson 
Brian Greene 
Andrew Wiles 
Edsger Dijkstra 
Benoit Mandelbrot 
Andre Weil 
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
Henri Poincare 
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The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Henri Poincare
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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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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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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Dijkstra
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
Abraham Robinson
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Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
Andre Weil
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