Paul Erdos Quotes About Mathematics

• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

  Paul Erdos

  Witty, Humorous, Coffee

• It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.

  Paul Erdos

  Teaching, Math, Years

  "The indivisible man" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2003.

• I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Math, Numbers

• Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful.
  If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful.
  If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.

  Paul Erdos

  Beautiful, Education, Math

• Mathematics is not yet ready for such problems.

  Paul Erdos

  Math, Problem, Ready

• When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion.

  Paul Erdos

  Education, Children, Math

• The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

  Paul Erdos

  Purpose, Life Is, Mathematics

• A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

  Paul Erdos

  Coffee, Cups, Mathematics

• Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

  Paul Erdos

  Discovery, Way, Forgotten

• Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

  Paul Erdos

  Education, Science, Mathematics

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