My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Pappus of Alexandria was one of the last great Greek mathematicians of Antiquity, known for his Synagoge or Collection, and for Pappus's hexagon theorem in projective geometry.
