I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.

The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.