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• The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
• Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred…
• I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
• However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
• Always try the problem that matters most to you.
• Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
• Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first…
• I never use a computer.
• Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
• Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know…
• I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in…
• That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

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