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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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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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"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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"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
Children
"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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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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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."
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"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today."
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"I loved doing problems in school."
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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 realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest."
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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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