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"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."
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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
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"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
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"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
Infinity
"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
Mind
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."
Time
"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
Love
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
Mathematicians
"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."
Mathematics
"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."
Time
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"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."
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"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"
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"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"
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"I think I'm a focus for international attention."
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"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."
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"Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was."
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"We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves."
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"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
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