"Dreams In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the Heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there i"
"So for me, one starts to become a mathematician more or less through an act of rebellion. In what sense? In the sense that the future mathematician will start to think about a certain problem, and he will notice that, in fact, what he has read in the literature, what he has read in books, doesn't co"
"On Alexander Grothendieck Contrary to what I sometimes hear said, his aim was not maximal generality. The ideal was that theorems should be well understood, that the structure of their proof should consist of definitions, carefully chosen so that each geometric idea should shed its light afar. A key"