I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.