A Review of "When Einstein Walked with Gödel"
It's incredibly frustrating to see beauty where others do not. This isolation is one of the main problems about studying mathematics. Whenever I answer the question “What do you do?”, I expect my answer to immediately kill this line of discussion. Not only do people have little idea about what I do, they hate what I do. This is the isolation: what I love, others loathe. Where I see deep, rich beauty, others cannot avert their eyes fast enough. This is why attempts to popularize mathematics interest me. They offer me an opportunity to connect with others, and those I love, over my life’s passion.
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