Charles Krauthammer Quote

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.


Column, July 5, 1993, "An Age-old Puzzle, Solved Modestly" at chicagotribune.com.

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Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven...

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven...

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven...

Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven...