1. WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?

2. Mathematics is an endeavour of the human spirit

3. The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit Francis Bacon

4. Axioms in Mathematics

5. Axiom of Plane Geometry A B

6. Mathematics can be divided into 5 large domains: Algebra Geometry Analysis Discrete Mathematics Probability & Statistics

7. Is Mathematics an art or is it a science?

8. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show Bertrand Russell

9. If you ask me to choose between truth and beauty of mathematics, I would choose beauty Sir Michael Atiyah, Field medalist and former president of the royal society

10. H ow can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality Sir Albert Einstein Sir Albert Einstein

11. The prosperity of a state is intimately linked to the progress of mathematics Napoleon