[T]here is nothing as dreamy and poetic.., as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament (2008)

Source: https://profkeithdevlin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lockhartslament.pdf

From Lockhart's 2008 essay A Mathematician's Lament, in Keith Devlin's Devlin's Angle column.

Topics: creativity, mathematics