One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science, is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, such men make this cosmos and its construction in the pivot of their emotional life, in ordered to find the peace and the security, which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
引导人们走向艺术和科学的最强烈动机之一,是逃离日常琐碎生活及其痛苦的粗鲁和绝望的沉闷,就像这些人将宇宙及其构建置于他们情感生活的枢纽中,以寻找他们在个人生活的狭窄漩涡中找不到的和平和安全。
The arithmetic of modular forms is a gateway to understanding higher-dimensional objects.
财富地位如同浮云般虚幻,功名利禄像流水一样易逝。
最糟糕的不平等形式是试图使不平等的事物平等。
数学不仅仅是关于数字、方程、计算或算法:它是关于理解的。