#mathematicians

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#day #discover #human #human mind #into

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #another way #bodies #heavenly #heavenly bodies

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#flatter #human #human language #ideas #language

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers. ↗

— Brian Greene

#bend #classical #classical composers #composers #like

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

— Andrew Wiles

#just #love #mathematicians #problems #pure

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#excitement #future #going #hope #i

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

— Andrew Wiles

#greatest problem #hypothesis #mathematicians #now #probably

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. ↗

— George Woodcock

#i #like #mathematicians #me #move