top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Mathematics quotes
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"The square root of I is I."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
Explore more quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.
"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."
"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."
"I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health."
"I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
"I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
bottom of page