This was my initiation to the mysteries of higher mathematics. Waking up every day, reading Pólya, walking around the lake, turning his problems around in my head until I would find a solution.
The Yemeni manuscript collections constitute a unique treasure trove for large segments of the Islamic intellectual tradition—Sunni as well as Shii—much of which has not survived anywhere else in the Islamic world.
Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?
Shiraz Minwalla in From Fluid Dynamics to Gravity and Back
In the realm of politics, the value of freedom is collective and enabling. It makes it possible for men and women to join together and claim equal standing. Take political freedom away and equality becomes a lost project.
Michael Walzer on Freedom and Equality
