One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren&#39;t usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It&#39;s structures and patterns, and that&#39;s what we love, and that&#39;s what we get off on.

As recently as the eighteenth century, England happily installed a German king, George I, even though he spoke not a word of English and reigned for thirteen years without mastering his subjects’ language. Common people did not expect to speak like their masters any more than they expected to live like them.

1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States . . .

Written By Joan Didion

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