Mathematicians
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A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics.
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Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium... cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum irretiant.
Translation: Therefore, a good Christian should beware that mathematicians, and any others who prophesy impiously... may be entangled in the companionship of demons. St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram Augustine uses "mathematicians" in this context to refer mainly to astrologers and occultists using numerology.
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Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen; redet man mit ihnen, so übersetzen sie es in ihre Sprache, und dann ist es alsobald ganz etwas anderes.
Translation: Mathematicians are [like] a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately something quite different. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
A topologist is one who doesn't know the difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup.
You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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.
Give us something to take home!
Some of you may have had occasion to run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore: How they got that way
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Think Explore Solve Lookback.
lottery: Taxation for the mathematically inept.
