1.Math is Art not Sport, this is extremely important for students coming from China
2.he ruefully recounts some instances in which he himself displayed attitudes of conceit and haughtiness and realizes that these attitudes had coalesced into a "sportive" or competitive approach to mathematics that had begun to hamper his ability to open himself to the beauty of mathematical thing
3.In the work of discovery,this intense attention,this ardent solicitude,are an essential force,just like the warmth of the sun for the obscure gestation of seeds covered in nourishing soil,and for their humble and miraculous blossoming in the light of day
4.And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or less vast, more or less rich from one epoch to another, which unfurls over the course of generations and centuries, by the delicate counterpoint of all the themes appearing in turn, as if summoned from the void
2.he ruefully recounts some instances in which he himself displayed attitudes of conceit and haughtiness and realizes that these attitudes had coalesced into a "sportive" or competitive approach to mathematics that had begun to hamper his ability to open himself to the beauty of mathematical thing
3.In the work of discovery,this intense attention,this ardent solicitude,are an essential force,just like the warmth of the sun for the obscure gestation of seeds covered in nourishing soil,and for their humble and miraculous blossoming in the light of day
4.And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or less vast, more or less rich from one epoch to another, which unfurls over the course of generations and centuries, by the delicate counterpoint of all the themes appearing in turn, as if summoned from the void
