“You conceive of my external mathematical reality as part of he external physical world. What I am about to tell you is going to come as a surprise, then. For me, it’s just the opposite: external physical reality is a part of archaic mathematical reality.”
—Alain Connes
July 2012
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead, that it has escaped me” —Blaise Pascal
A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead, that it has escaped me” —Blaise Pascal
“Il est remarquable qu’une science qui a commencé par la considération des jeux, ce soit élevée aux plus importants objects des connaissances humaines.”
—Pierre-Simon de Laplace
“The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.”
—James Byrnie Shaw
