Apostolos Doxiadis
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus

is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical

ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word,

but probably a mathematician has the best

chance of whatever it may mean.

G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology


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