Avoided 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

That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

— Albert Einstein

Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

— Simon Singh

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

— Andrew Wiles

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture,…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

— Andrew Wiles

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

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

— Francis Crick

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

— Floyd Alburn Firestone