Difficult Quote by Harold Davenport

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles

“Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously.”

— Floyd Alburn Firestone

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself…

— Howard Whitley Eves

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies,…

— Andre Weil

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Anonymous

If you come from mathematics, as I do, you realize that there are many problems, even classical problems, which cannot be solved by computation…

— Roger Penrose

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may…

— Israel Nathan Herstein

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

— Shakuntala Devi

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Andrew Wiles

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

— Timothy Gowers

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years,…

— Andrew Wiles