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"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."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"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."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"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."
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"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
"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."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."
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