Hugh Hopper Quotes

All science requires mathematics.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

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

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

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

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort of solved them.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by their very nature refer to the infinite. This is his glory.

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.