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“She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic,…

— Jessica Shattuck

“Agnes Tattle was the only person he’d ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must…

— Martha Woodroof

“ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician…

— Niels Henrik Abel

“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt,…

— Marta Acosta

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman with talk…

— Tessa Dare

“Not a savage—a barbarian. Savages know nothing of civilization. We barbarians know what civilization is, though we may have a low opinion of it."…

— Mary Jo Putney

“A weakly wilful being struggling to get obdurate things round impossible corners—in that symbol Mr. Polly could recognise himself and all the trouble of…

— H.G. Wells

“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the…

— Mark Haddon

“He perfectly fits the profile of a Hut 8 man, who need not know anything except pure math.”

— Neal Stephenson