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.
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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.
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.
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.
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