3 Quotes by Barry Mazur

  • Author Barry Mazur
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    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.

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    Mathematical objects are determined by – and understood by – the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

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    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.

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