• The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

    Jean Dieudonne: The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.
    Underwood Dudley, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Nathan Altshiller-Court, John Aubry, Girolamo Cardano (2008). “Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany”, The Mathematical Association of America