Begin With The Simplest Examples.

An Old French Mathematician Said: "a Mathematical Theory Is Not To Be Considered Complete Until You Have Made It So Clear That You Can Explain It To The First Man Whom You Meet On The Street." This Clearness And Ease Of Comprehension, Here Insisted On For A Mathematical Theory, I Should Still More Demand For A Mathematical Problem If It Is To Be Perfect; For What Is Clear And Easily Comprehended Attracts, The Complicated Repels Us.

Mathematics Is A Game Played According To Certain Simple Rules With Meaningless Marks On Paper.

Sometimes It Happens That A Man's Circle Of Horizon Becomes Smaller And Smaller, And As The Radius Approaches Zero It Concentrates On One Point. And Then That Becomes His Point Of View.

Before Beginning [to Try To Prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I Should Have To Put In Three Years Of Intensive Study, And I Haven't That Much Time To Squander On A Probable Failure.

If I Were To Awaken After Having Slept For A Thousand Years, My First Question Would Be: Has The Riemann Hypothesis Been Proven?