Top 5 Barry Mazur Quotes
#1. There is an
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics.
Barry Mazur
#2. In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).
Barry Mazur
#3. Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.
Barry Mazur
#4. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.
Barry Mazur
#5. Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.
Barry Mazur
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