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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
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"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."
"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
"We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention."
"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."
"Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century."
"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
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