Math Quotes
"It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
- Pierre de Fermat, 1637
It would be more than three hundred years before Fermat's statement was proven.
- Pierre de Fermat, 1637
It would be more than three hundred years before Fermat's statement was proven.
"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
- Roger Bacon
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
- Bertrand Russell