Status Updates From Once Upon a Prime

The mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote that “a mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. …The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

“Mathematicians appear in work by authors as disparate as Arthur Conan Doyle and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. And how about the fractal structure that underlies Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park or the algebraic principles governing various forms of poetry?”

In a deeply serious way, I think, I am going to love this book so much.