A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.