A Tour of the Calculus

Then he said what I knew—what I had always known—he would say. It is what the dead always say, and it is the only thing they say.

“Remember me.”

A mathematical argument, once understood, is in its capacity to compel belief a miracle of enlightened life.

“Any idiot,” he said calmly but with immense conviction, “can learn anything in mathematics. It requires only patience.”