Talk:Mathematicians

Should we name the page "mathematicians" (plural), since that more implies a general rather than individual case? Would setup a redirect for the mathematician page. SkyOdyssey 09:18, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Done ~ Kalki 09:33, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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 * A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
 * Uncertain, often misattributed to Charles Darwin


 * A topologist is one who doesn't know the difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup.
 * John Kelley


 * You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.
 * Max Rosenlicht


 * The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
 * Havelock Ellis


 * There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.
 * Giancarlo Rota


 * Give us something to take home!
 * Dirk Struik


 * Some of you may have had occasion to run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore: How they got that way
 * Tom Lehrer


 * It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
 * Sofia Kovalevskaya


 * Think Explore Solve Lookback.
 * Assael


 * lottery: Taxation for the mathematically inept.
 * B. Duane Farris