Conversation Quote by Barry Mazur

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

— Barry Mazur

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than…

— Anonymous

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights…

— Edmund Husserl

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations…

— Barry Mazur

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann

By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes…

— John Von Neumann

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by…

— Alfred Adler

Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

An old French mathematician said: "A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can…

— David Hilbert

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are…

— Dirk Jan Struik

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

— Gian-Carlo Rota