I sat in math class wishing it would end. Now I wish this woman had been my math teacher.https://www.quantamagazine.org/maryam-mirzakhani-is-first-woman-fields-medalist-20140812/ …
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We can't understand big numbers in any other way. We must see in them some sort of structure that reveals their kinship with small numbers.
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Otherwise, their complexity baffles and humiliates us. Our minds are simply unequal to the obscure multifariousness of really large numbers.
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