"A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of……" — Gian-Carlo Rota

"A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks."

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