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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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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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"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
"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."
Work
"Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one."
Solution
"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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