The conjectures of the Langlands program are not merely problems to be solved but a vision of how mathematics should be.
朗兰兹纲领的猜想不仅仅是待解决的问题,而是关于数学应该如何的愿景。
问题在于,在许多大公司,流程取代了思考。你被鼓励表现得像复杂机器中的一个小齿轮。
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.
"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."