I Have Tried To Avoid Long Numerical

As Long As A Branch Of Science Offers An Abundance Of Problems, So Long It Is Alive; A Lack Of Problems Foreshadows Extinction Or The Cessation Of Independent Development.

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.

Who Of Us Would Not Be Glad To Lift The Veil Behind Which The Future Lies Hidden; To Cast A Glance At The Next Advances Of Our Science And At The Secrets Of Its Development During Future Centuries? What Particular Goals Will There Be Toward Which The Leading Mathematical Spirits Of Coming Generations Will Strive? What New Methods And New Facts In The Wide And Rich Field Of Mathematical Thought Will The New Centuries Disclose?

Every Mathematical Discipline Goes Through Three Periods Of Development: The Naive, The Formal, And The Critical.

One Must Be Able To Say At All Times--instead Of Points, Straight Lines, And Planes--tables, Chairs, And Beer Mugs