Talk:Mathematicians

Should we name the page "mathematicians" (plural), since that more implies a general rather than individual case? Would setup a redirect for the mathematician page. SkyOdyssey 09:18, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Done ~ Kalki 09:33, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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• A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.
  • Uncertain, often misattributed to Charles Darwin

• A topologist is one who doesn't know the difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup.
  • John Kelley

• You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy.
  • Max Rosenlicht

• The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
  • Havelock Ellis

• There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory; but there are also contingent ones, which are useful in testing the stability of a theory.
  • Giancarlo Rota

• Give us something to take home!
  • Dirk Struik

• Some of you may have had occasion to run into mathematicians and to wonder therefore: How they got that way
  • Tom Lehrer

• It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya

• Think Explore Solve Lookback.
  • Assael

• lottery: Taxation for the mathematically inept.
  • B. Duane Farris