Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

每一个故事都是一个谜题，而作家的任务是以一种揭示更深层次真相的方式将这些碎片拼凑起来。