If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
~ John Louis von Neumann
There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some technique or procedure, and requires little if any, original thought… No exercise, then, can always be done with reasonbable dispatch and with a miniumum of creative thinking. In contrast to an exercise, a problem, if it is a good one for its level, should require though on the part of the student.
~ Howard Eves
A math student’s best friend is BOB (the Back Of the Book), but remember that BOB doesn’t come to school on test days.
~ Josh Folb
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated but to make complicated things simple.
~ S. Gudder
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.
~ I. N. Herstein
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