Career Quote by Tom Lehrer

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

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed.

— Terence Tao

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods…

— Theodore Kaczynski

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I…

— Carl Sandburg

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

— David Foster Wallace

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

— David Hilbert

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of…

— David Mumford

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

— Prue Leith

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

— Noah Centineo

It's probably the wrong way round, I know, but I just love maths and doing equations. When I was a kid, I was really…

— Lucy Bronze

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

— Maryam Mirzakhani

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz