General

“Discovery is a child’s privilege. I mean the small child, the child who is not afraid to be wrong, to look silly, to not be serious, and to act differently from everyone else. He is also not afraid that the things he is interested in are in bad taste or turn out to be different from his expectations, from what they should be, or rather he is not afraid of what they actually are. He ignores the silent and flawless consensus that is part of the air we breathe – the consensus of all the people who are, or are reputed to be, reasonable.”

― Alexander Grothendieck

“It is in this gesture of "going beyond," to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one-it is in this solitary act that one finds true creativity. All others things follow as a matter of course.”

― Alexander Grothendieck

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

-Alexander Grothendieck

This is an amazing article by William P. Thurston.--``On proof and progress in mathematics" arXiv:math/9404236v1 .

This is an amazing article by Sir. Michael Atiyah, Béla Bollobás, Alain Connes, Dusa McDuff, and Peter Sarnak.--``Advice to younger mathematicians". http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_VIII_6.pdf

Recently, I was reading a book by Edward Frenkel, named "Love and Math". www.edwardfrenkel.com/lovemath/ I'll also recommend this video of Edward Frenkel which I find to be very inspiring youtu.be/ktmr_uNjLws .