“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“Proof is what lies at the heart of maths, and is what marks it out from other sciences. Other sciences have hypotheses that are tested against experimental evidence until they fail, and are overtaken by new hypotheses. In maths, absolute proof is the goal, and once something is proved, it is proved forever, with no room for change.”
― Fermat’s Last Theorem: The compelling biography and history of mathematical intellectual endeavour
― Fermat’s Last Theorem: The compelling biography and history of mathematical intellectual endeavour
“Emotions somehow meant more when they were handwritten on precious scraps of paper and conveyed on slow trains running out of fuel.”
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
“North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?”
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
― Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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