Fermat’s Last Theorem was the Himalayan peak of number theory. I was introduced to the aesthetic beauty of mathematics, and I began to appreciate what it is to describe mathematics as the language of nature. (Location 63)
Mathematics is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost otherworldly. (Location 81)
But how can something that is undeniably smaller than an infinite quantity also be infinite? (Location 1380)
The proof was a gigantic argument, intricately constructed from hundreds of mathematical calculations glued together by thousands of logical links. (Location 3418)
