There are problems that reward patience and persistence, and then there are those bent on stubborn resistance. Such was Fermat's Enigma.Simon Singh
Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness.Simon Singh
The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, by which I mean the amount of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.G. H. Hardy
Every positive integer was a glorious place to be.Simon Singh
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.Pierre de Fermat
The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, is blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.Simon Singh
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.Simon Singh
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.John von Neumann
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists because we cannot prove it.André Weil
The business of concrete mathematics is to discover the equations which express the mathematical laws of the phenomenon under consideration; and these equations are the starting-point of the calculus.Simon Singh