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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

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

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 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.

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

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