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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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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
Children
"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."
Mathematics
"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
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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."
Mathematics
"Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one."
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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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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."
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"I loved doing problems in school."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
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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."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"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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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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