#mathematics

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ↗

— David Hilbert

#country #cultural #geographic #knows #mathematics

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

— David Hilbert

#certain #game #marks #mathematics #meaningless

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics. ↗

— Mos Def

#how #know #learn #mathematics #rhyme

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#fully #learned #like #mathematics #may

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

— Andrew Wiles

#generates #good #itself #mathematical #mathematics

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

— Andrew Wiles

#childhood #dates #days #early #early childhood

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

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. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#complete #could #day #hundred #i

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#any #day #end #end of the day #even