Borislava Grkovic

“Don’t talk about percentages of numbers when the numbers might be negative.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here after you.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday

“Excellence doesn’t persist; time passes, and mediocrity asserts itself.*”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“Mark Twain is good on this: “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday