Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics.

Quotes

...beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.

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:-Saint Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram (actually "mathematicians" in this context refers mainly to astrologers and such)

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A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

Related Topics:
Coffee - Theorem

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:-Paul Erdős

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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. (Mathematicians are a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately something quite different.)

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:-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Some humans are mathematicians; others aren't.

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:-Jane Goodall (1971) In the Shadow of Man

Related Topics:
Jane Goodall - 1971

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