You cannot be cheated, you cannot be lied to. A thing is true or not true, and there is this notion of clarity on which you can base yourself.

— Sylvia Serfaty, The Beauty of Mathematics: It Can Never Lie to You (2017)

Source: https://www.wired.com/2017/03/beauty-mathematics-can-never-lie/

From a 2017 Wired article.

Topics: mathematics