Mathematicians

I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves explicitly.

Mathematicians are poets, except that they have to prove what their fantasy creates.

Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.

Mathematicians have this in common with the French: whatever you're trying to say to them, they take it and translate it in their own way and turn it around into something completely different.

Angry at Leif Ericson for stealing his thunder 500 years before, Christopher Columbus once wrote a rigorous mathematical proof that showed how Ericson had never actually been to North America. Unfortunately, the proof was too difficult for even the brightest mathematicians to understand.

Mathematicians are creative artists, their artworks being sophisticated constructs of ideas and aesthetic proofs.

Saeb thinks mathematicians are self-contained walking pieces of heaven.

I don't like it when mathematicians who know much more than I do can't express themselves clearly.

That which for mathematicians is illogical is entirely normal for musicians: seven plus seven is thirteen.

Some of you may not have heard of him before, but Georg Cantor was undoubtedly one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century.