Every true mathematician sees mathematics everywhere—in a child's swing or a pendulum, in the outline shape of a tree and that of its leaves, in the clouds

— Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Centenarian Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw—Conqueror of Magic Squares, Rubik's Cube and Mauna Kea

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dame-kathleen-ollerenshaw/

Quoted in a Scientific American article about her.

Topics: mathematics