“...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“So, a great Indian teacher of mathematics discovered the zero written in God's notebook, and, thanks to him, we can now read many more pages in the notebook. Is that it?” — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Are all things quantifiable, and all numbers fraught with poetic possibility?” — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Solving a problem for which you know there's an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.” — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...” — Yôko Ogawa Copy Share Image
The truly correct proof is one that strikes a harmonious balance between strength and flexibility. There are plenty of proofs that are technically correct… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wish I could describe how wonderful I feel in those few seconds from the time he spreads his arms above his head,… — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
“And it helped that he forgot what he’d taught me before, so I was free to repeat the same question until I” — Yōko Ogawa Copy Share Image
