Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat. . . I mean she folded her underwear like origami.
Improbable things happen a lot. . .
This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar.
André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.
I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.
We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.
I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.