Mary Callahan Erdoes Quotes

Mathematics is as old as Man.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Math was my big interest when I was in prep school. I was considering taking math in college, and majoring in it.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.

Mathematicians are fairly cheap.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Math was always my best subject growing up.

I was very into math and calculus, and just always was very - really interested in that. But any sort of numbers.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get 'Calculus for the Practical Man.' By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics?

I think math is exciting, you know.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

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