The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.

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

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

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

I never use a computer.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

Someone telling you about the future did not prepare you for it. Nothing prepared you for it.

A loyal servant does not think of things outside of his control.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

Blood and death. That moves me.

As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state.

I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.

I'm inspired by it all - the good and the not so good - because every experience is an opportunity for me to learn, grow, and become the best version of myself.

With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.