Marianne Freiberger, Rachel Thomas

Topics: mathematics

• It might have been beans, successful hunts, or victories in battle, but, for millennia, people were using maths to describe things - counting them, measuring them, dividing them up.

  — Marianne Freiberger, Rachel Thomas

• Maths is the language spoken by all the sciences, taking us to the frontiers of knowledge, from the workings of the Universe to the workings of our minds, which enabled us to dream it all up in the first place.

  — Marianne Freiberger, Rachel Thomas

• For many, maths is fundamentally beautiful; indeed many mathematicians won’t be entirely satisfied with their work until it has an elegance, simplicity and grace. Others are drawn by its ‘unreasonable effectiveness’ - its power to explain the world we live in.

  — Marianne Freiberger, Rachel Thomas