You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.
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Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.
I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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