Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'

The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.

Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.

Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is "continuous", and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.