- "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater."
- "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
- "Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts."
- "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
- "So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality."
- "Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
- "Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more."
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- If you liked those then check out our famous math quotes and funny math quotes.
All India Ramanujan Maths Club
Great Thoughts By - Great Albert Enstein
Did You Know?????
- π=3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 ...
- A sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces.
- There are shapes of constant width other than the circle. One can even drill square holes.
- There are just five regular polyhedra
- In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
- Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with the compass alone
- Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.
- There are curves that fill a plane without holes
- Much as with people, there are irrational, perfect, complex numbers
- As in philosophy, there are transcendental numbers
- As in the art, there are imaginary and surreal numbers
- A straight line has dimension 1, a plane - 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
- Mathematics studies neighborhoods, groups and free groups, rings, ideals, holes, poles andremovable poles, trees, growth ...
- Mathematics also studies models, shapes, curves, cardinals, similarity, consistency,completeness, space ...
- Among objects of mathematical study are heredity, continuity, jumps, infinity, infinitesimals,paradoxes...
- Last but not the least, Mathematics studies stability, projections and values, values are oftenabsolute but may also be extreme, local or global.
- Trigonometry aside, Mathematics comprises fields like Game Theory, Braids Theory, Knot Theory and more
- One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible
- Some numbers are square, yet others are triangular
- The next sentence is true but you must not believe it
- The previous sentence was false
- 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between
- One can cut a pie into 8 pieces with three movements
- Program=Algorithms+Data Structures
- There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die.
- A clock never showing right time might be preferable to the one showing right time twice a day
- Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter
Amazing Maths Facts
- The word 'mathematics' comes from the Greek máthēma, which means learning, study, science.
- Do you know a word known as Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia means difficulty in learning arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, and learning maths facts!
- In America, mathematics is known as ‘math’, they say that ‘mathematics’ functions as a singular noun so as per them ‘math’ should be singular too.
- Do you know ‘Mathematics’ is an anagram of ‘me asthmatic’. (An Anagram is word or phrase made by transposing or rearranging letter of other words or phrase.)
- Notches (cuts or indentation) on animal bones prove that humans have been doing mathematics since around 30,000 BC.
- The word ‘hundrath’ in Old Norse (old language from where English language originated), from which word ‘hundred’ derives, meant not 100 but 120.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- The number 5 is pronounced as 'Ha' in Thai language.555 is also used by some as slang for 'HaHaHa'.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- Zero ( 0 ) is the only number which can not be represented by Roman numerals.
- The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word 'cipher' meaning 'a secret way of writing' .
- Do you know the magic of no. nine (9)? Multiply any number with nine (9 ) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9).
- Here is an interesting trick to check divisibility of any number by number 3.A number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits is divisible by three (3).
- The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations.
- Googol (meaning & origin of Google brand ) is the term used for a number 1 followed by 100 zeros and that it was used by a nine-year old, Milton Sirotta, in 1940.
- The name of the popular search engine ‘Google’ came from a misspelling of the word ‘googol’.
- Abacus is considered the origin of the calculator.
- Have you ever noticed that the opposite sides a die always add up to seven (7).
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