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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."

"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"

"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."

"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."

"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."

"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."

"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."

"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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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."
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