The ideal of certainty in mathematical proof is crumbling, says Brian Hayes. I tend to agree, but then again, I'm a weirdo left-wing postmodernist.
This article is long, but I think it's worth reading. The opening sentence - "I was a teenage angle trisector" - is genius.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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