Behind the scenes Quote by John D. Barrow

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

Collaboration is multiplication.

— John C. Maxwell

“The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward some objective element within their subject matter that is…

— John D. Barrow

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation…

— Dusa McDuff

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and…

— Ada Lovelace

I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics,…

— Terence Tao

However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

— H. David Burton

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler…

— David Hilbert

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

“no matter how much tech companies talk about algorithms like they’re nothing but advanced math, they always reflect the values of their creators:”

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of…

— Richard P. Feynman