Pure mathematics is a sucker's game. It lures the curious and the confident with its seeming simplicity only to make them look like fools.


New Answer for an Old Question, Newsweek, July 5, 1993 (p. 52)

Sharon Begley Quotes

Pure mathematics is a sucker's game. It lures the curious and the confident with its seeming simplicity only to make them look like fools.

Pure mathematics is a sucker's game. It lures the curious and the confident with its seeming simplicity only to make them look like fools.

Pure mathematics is a sucker's game. It lures the curious and the confident with its seeming simplicity only to make them look like fools.

Pure mathematics is a sucker's game. It lures the curious and the confident with its seeming simplicity only to make them look like fools.