mathematical theorem Quotes

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which it connects.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.