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Landau, E. [Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said:] I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear. J.E. Littlewood, A Mathematician’s Miscellany, Methuen and Co ltd., 1953.
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Landau, Susan There’s a touch of the priesthood in the academic world, a sense that a scholar should not be distracted by the mundane tasks of day-to-day living. I used to have great stretches of time to work. Now I have research thoughts while making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Sure it’s impossible to write down ideas while reading ‘curious George’ to a two-year-old. On the other hand, as my husband was leaving graduate school for his first job, his thesis advisor told him, ‘You may wonder how a professor gets any research done when one has to teach, advise students, serve on committees, referee papers, write letters of recommendation, interview prospective faculty. Well, I take long showers.’ In Her Own Words: Six Mathematicians Comment on Their Lives and Careers. Notices of the AMS, V. 38, no. 7 (September 1991), p. 704.
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Lang, Andrew (1844-1912) He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination. Treasury of Humorous Quotations.
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Langer, Rudoph E. [about Fourier] It was, no doubt, partially because of his very disregard for rigor that he was able to take conceptual steps which were inherently impossible to men of more critical genius. In P. Davis and R. Hersh The Mathematical Experience, Boston: Birkh’ser, 1981.
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Lao Tze (604-531 B.C.) A good calculator does not need artificial aids. Tao Te Ching, ch 27.
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le Lionnais, Francois Who has not be amazed to learn that the function y = e^x , like a phoenix rising again from its own ashes, is its own derivative? Great Currents of Mathematical Thought, vol. 1, New York: Dover Publications.
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Leach, Edmund Ronald (1910 – 1989) How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern. Rethinking Anthropology. 1961.
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Leacock, Stephen How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can’t hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can’t shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon. So died, for each of us, still bravely fighting, our mathematical training; except for a set of people called ‘mathematicians’ — born so, like crooks. In H. Eves Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber and Schmidt, 1988.
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Lebesgue, Henri (1875 – 1941) In my opinion, a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy — an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers. Scientific American, 211, September 1964, p. 129.
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Lehrer, Thomas Andrew (1928- ) In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize only be sure always to call it please research. Lobachevski (A musical recording.)
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Leibniz, Gottfried Whilhem (1646-1716) In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished. In G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill Inc., 1992.
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Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.- Plato
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Leybourn, William (1626-1700) But leaving those of the Body, I shall proceed to such Recreation as adorn the Mind; of which those of the Mathematicks are inferior to none. Pleasure with Profit, 1694.
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Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742 – 1799) All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true. In J P Stern Lichtenberg, 1959.
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Lippman, Gabriel (1845-1921) [On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincar’] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact. In D’Arcy Thompson On Growth and Form, 1917.
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Littlewood, J. E. (1885 -1977) We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or ‘real’ probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: ‘If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician’. In practice he is apt to say: ‘try this; if it works that will justify it’. But now he is not merely philosophizing; he is committing the characteristic fallacy. Inductive experience that the system works is not evidence. A Mathematician’s Miscellany, Methuen Co. Ltd, 1953.
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Lobatchevsky, Nikolai There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
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Locke, John …mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. D. Burton, Elementary Number Theory, Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1980.
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Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.
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Mach, Ernst (1838 – 1916) Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
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