Mathematical Quotes

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. - David Hilbert

A loss definitely kind of puts us out. Not mathematically, but common sense tells us we're out. - John Ellinger

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business. - Barbara Ehrenreich

A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. - Sri Yukteswar

[Work to eliminate] math anxiety... so many students who clearly demonstrate impressive verbal or other conceptual skills find mathematical procedures intimidating. - Alan Greenspan

[The mathematical logic underpinning the plan is already stirring controversy. Hubbard and Friedman are making a huge and controversial macroeconomic bet that deficits don't matter, effectively reversing a decade of policymaking.] This Administration is trying to change the whole intellectual basis for fiscal policy that Alan Greenspan enforced when deficits were large in the early 1990s... We got fiscal discipline through the idea that deficits matter. That's been flipped on its head. - Mark Zandi