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Timothy Gowers Quotes

Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data Picture Quote #1

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society Picture Quote #1

Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant Picture Quote #1

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Although the prime numbers are rigidly determined, they somehow feel like experimental data (Timothy Gowers Quotes) A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society (Timothy Gowers Quotes) Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant (Timothy Gowers Quotes)