Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view. Numbers, properly considered, make us better people.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

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.