Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over ….

The classes of problems which are respectively known and not known to have good algorithms are of great theoretical interest. [...] I conjecture th….

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know..

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer..

Mathematics is fun if you don't let mathematicians push you around when you are doing it..