Fades Quote by Carl Pomerance

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

— Edmund Landau

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

— Adrian Mathesis

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and…

— Anonymous

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

— Stanislaw Ulam

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just…

— Freeman Dyson

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9…

— Danica McKellar

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it -…

— Richard P. Feynman

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

— Rene Thom

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

— Pierre de Fermat