The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous…

- Barry Mazur

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to …

- Barry Mazur

This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especial…

- Barry Mazur

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part…

- Barry Mazur

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

- Barry Mazur

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

- Barry Mazur