All credit to Tim Gowers for doing this. He tweeted the quote "Being good at maths is being good at being stuck" from this video a little while ago https://www

All credit to Tim Gowers for doing this. He tweeted the quote "Being good at maths is being good at being stuck" from this video a little while ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenf8E1RuoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenf8E1RuoA But of course he wouldn't be doing a voice-over in a real non-recorded attempt to solve a problem and I think it's notable that he falls silent when focusing at times. Interesting that he solves it by sleeping on the problem. He's quite active on Twitter: a friend of mine has had some good debates with him on particular problems using Twitter.