Authority Quote by Terence Tao

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg…

— Daniel Tammet

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

— Tom Lehrer

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

— Andrew Wiles

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz

[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.

— Evan Esar

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Mathematics was actually a logical puzzle with endless variations—riddles that could be solved. The trick was not to solve arithmetical problems. Five times five…

— Stieg Larsson

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

— Bill Gaede

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

— Paul Erdos