As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
