Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas

Topics: mathematics

• It is a truth universally acknowledged … that ε (pronounced ‘epsilon’) is always a very small number, and usually comes with a δ (pronounced ‘delta’).

  — Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas

• The forbidding symbols and equations are just another language: code for beautiful ideas that often find surprising uses in the ordinary world we all live in.

  — Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas