Enjoy some of these math quotes and jokes!
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50
percent imagination.
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" (P. Erdos)
Addendum: American coffee is good for lemmas.
An engineer thinks that his equations are an approximation to reality.
A physicist thinks reality is an approximation to his equations. A mathematician
doesn't care.
Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate
it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.
-- Goethe
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
-- J. H. Poincare
What is a rigorous definition of rigor?
There is no logical foundation of mathematics, and Gödel has proved
it!
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