Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite.

Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand.

People say home is where the heart is, but I think maybe home is the heart

When you use life's curve balls to create positive energy, you cultivate a Don't Die® spirit that powers you through moment by moment so that you live your life to the fullest until the very end.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

I'd just like to be able to walk without pain or run without a limp.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.