David Mumford Quotes

A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

David Mumford

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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.

Olivia Wilde
- People
- Love
- Age
For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra
- People
- Life
- World
I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

Imogen Cunningham
- Man
- Myself
- Never
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

Harald zur Hausen
- World
- Family
- War
I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

Garth Brooks
- Trouble
- Face
- Inside
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban
- Men
- History
- Nations