Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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 mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They're always pulling jokes on each other.
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.