Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.
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.
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
I just love math and most people don't.
There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.