List of Unsolved Problems in Mathematics

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“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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—Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)

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—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

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—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

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