Follow Quote by Terence Tao

I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

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

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

— Alonzo Church

I think I'm statistically literate and numbers-oriented. But I'm nowhere near as sophisticated as a lot of other folks I see. Maybe that helps…

— Steve Kornacki

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between…

— Daniel Tammet

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your…

— Viswanathan Anand

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'm real good with math, with numbers, like my dad was. I'm pretty much dialed in.

— Hulk Hogan

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

— Michaela Watkins

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

— Grover Norquist

I listen to things that are popular and try to think about it in a mathematical way.

— Stephen Malkmus

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

— Benoit Mandelbrot