Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.