There is nothing deadlier for a mathematician than to be placed in a beautiful office and instructed to lay golden eggs.


Indiscrete Thoughts, Chapter XX (p. 210), Birkhäuser. 1997

Gian-Carlo Rota Quotes

There is nothing deadlier for a mathematician than to be placed in a beautiful office and instructed to lay golden eggs.

There is nothing deadlier for a mathematician than to be placed in a beautiful office and instructed to lay golden eggs.

There is nothing deadlier for a mathematician than to be placed in a beautiful office and instructed to lay golden eggs.

There is nothing deadlier for a mathematician than to be placed in a beautiful office and instructed to lay golden eggs.