Link: A math op-ed, circa 1996 By Suzanne Sutton. Here’s a quote: It is among the greatest ironies of education that a subject so graceful and elegant, so [...]
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words must fit together in a [...]
The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it because it is [...]