Jacob Bains

“In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“DEFINITION 1-2. The set S has a topology (or is topologized) provided that, for every point p in S and every subset X of S, the question “Is p a limit point of X?” can be answered.”
― John G. Hocking, Topology

“you. You seem pleased despite your sorrow.” Many even added that he was delighted to have the role of clown thrust upon him,”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Platonist view of mathematical ideas: that mathematical truths ‘really’ exist, but they do so in an ideal form in some sort of parallel reality, which has always existed and always will.”
― Ian Stewart, Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians