Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate. — David Mumford Copy Share Image
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems. — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
