It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. From LearnThat.org. [Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871)]
Y'know what they call a mathematician who goes south for the winter?. From Wordnik.com. [LEaRning can bE fUn!] Reference
Ever hear the quip that a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into proofs?. From Wordnik.com. [April « 2008 « Imaginary Potential] Reference
A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. From Wordnik.com. [As We May Think] Reference
Synopsis: In an alternate post-WWII, a mathematician is imprisoned for his homosexuality. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Galileo's Children edited by Gardner Dozois] Reference
Both of Duchin's parents loved numbers, and she knew she wanted to be a mathematician from the tender age of 7. From Wordnik.com. [Where is she now? Moon Duchin] Reference
The mathematician is a stickler for little things. From Wordnik.com. [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference
Leonardo of Pisa, aka the mathematician "Fibonacci", published his. From Wordnik.com. Reference
“A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.”. From Wordnik.com. [Reader request Week 2007 #2: Coffee, or Lack Thereof « Whatever] Reference
It went against his grain to imagine that a mathematician could be a logician. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
I am not a mathematician, which is probably pretty obvious, but I do know this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2007] Reference
Leonardo of Pisa, aka the mathematician "Fibonacci", published his Fibonacci sequence in. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Great Regulars: During his lifetime, Omar Khayyam was best known as a mathematician and astronomer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
My response when I heard this piece of sexist nonsense: “The mathematician was a hetero woman.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » How Academics Are Like Teenagers:] Reference
The usual form is "A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems", and this site attributes it to Renyi. From Wordnik.com. [nanopolitan] Reference
(1717-83). and is best known as a mathematician for his 1785 essay on the theory of probability. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
IBM is looking for a special kind of mathematician, and will pay especially well for his abilities. From Wordnik.com. [2006 September] Reference
I think Dembski’s main problem as a mathematician is the first one you brought up—the verbosity. From Wordnik.com. [Beckwith, ID and science - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Perhaps we can get a feel by asking a similar question, How to translate "mathematician" into Chinese?. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
What kind of mathematician could build a construction like this and never consider the self-referential case?. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
"Mr. Lurbe is not any kind of mathematician or physicist or engineer," Reginald Minn, defense attorney, said. From Wordnik.com. Reference
(This is a formula concocted by mathematician Brin.). From Wordnik.com. [LIVING BY GOOGLE RULES] Reference
What does a mathematician know that security experts don't?. From Wordnik.com. [CALCULUS FOR CATASTROPHE] Reference
Igor Primakov, a 37-year-old mathematician, senses a turnaround. From Wordnik.com. [Why He's Failing] Reference
Excerpts: THEIL: Why is a mathematician interested in terrorism?. From Wordnik.com. [CALCULUS FOR CATASTROPHE] Reference
It's very rare, but there was a French mathematician with that name. From Wordnik.com. [It’s a Picture Book, a Novel, a Movie in Book Form …] Reference
Also, my principal at Ullman High School in Birmingham was a mathematician. From Wordnik.com. [UMBC president Freeman Hrabowski discusses science for women and minorities] Reference
Leonhard Euler, the great Swiss mathematician, proved it for exponents of 3 in the 1790s. From Wordnik.com. [New Answer For An Old Question] Reference
As a mathematician, I think in terms of axioms on which we can construct everything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Mathematician of Medellín] Reference
The 39-year-old mathematician is an instrument of China's campaign to become a tech power. From Wordnik.com. [High-Tech Hunger] Reference
Her father is the physicist Freeman Dyson, her mother is mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. From Wordnik.com. [The Accidental 'Techie'] Reference
Suddenly, the mathematician is struggling with a question about the U.S. Marines and Tripoli. From Wordnik.com. [How To Use A Lifeline] Reference
Then I looked at my son -- I thought of his potential, his brilliance as a musician and mathematician. From Wordnik.com. [Did I Save Lives Or Engage In Profiling?] Reference
Only one Chinese-born mathematician has won the Fields Medal, the Nobel Prize of math, in its 70-year history. From Wordnik.com. [Solving For Creativity] Reference
There is no way of knowing whether Duke Ellington would have become a mathematician or scientist under other circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Ability And Biology] Reference
"I've become a great believer in energy plants," says Freeman Dyson, a mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From Wordnik.com. [Pondering The Future's Future] Reference
That distinction belongs to the difference engine, a mechanical computer invented in 1822 by the British mathematician Charles Babbage. From Wordnik.com. [Nonsense in Nashville] Reference
As a young mathematician, he saw mathematical solutions -- nonrational flashes of intuition -- long before he could work out the reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [THE MAN BEHIND A BEAUTIFUL MIND] Reference
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