Yesterday, 22 December, is celebrated every year as National Mathematics Day in India, in honor of the 1887 birthday of the great Indian mathematician Ramanujan.
Here are some quotes about math in honor of the day, in the Indian periodical RepublicWorld.com
Mathematics Day: Here are some of the most inspirational Happy Mathematics Day quotes on Ramanujan's birthday to honour this special occasion. By Vageesha Taluja
Not included in that collection of quotes is this one, attributed in Wikipedia to Ramanujan himself: "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God."
I was pleasantly surprised to see included something much more prosaic that I was quoted as saying, in a 2010 profile in Forbes magazine called Un-Freakonomics, by Susan Adams:
"I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better." -Alvin E. Roth
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