Colleagues Quote by Maryam Mirzakhani

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

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights…

— Jim Propp

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

The only thing I am interested in using mathematics for is to have a good time and to help others do the same.

— Paul Lockhart

I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do.…

— Isadore Singer

A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I get interested,…

— Terence Tao

“It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.”

— David Foster Wallace

Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal…

— Peter Sarnak

Practising maths can be fun.

— Rachel Riley

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really,…

— Freeman Dyson

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

— Michaela Watkins

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren