Lthmath

“I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.”
― Paul Erdős

“Daniel Bernoulli: "Then this distinguished scholar informed me that the celebrated mathematician, Cramer, had developed a theory on the same subject several years before I produced my paper. Indeed I have found his theory so similar to mine that it seems miraculous that we independently reached sch close agreement on this sort of subject.”
― Persi Diaconis, Ten Great Ideas about Chance

“Mathematical truth is immutable; it lies outside physical reality... This is our belief; this is our core motivating force.”
― Joel Spencer

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology