"The real numbers are the dependable breadwinner of the family, the complete ordered field we all rely on. The complex…"

"Besides their possible role in physics, the octonions are important because they tie together some algebraic structur…"

"The most popular approach to quantum gravity is string theory. Despite decades of hard work by many very smart people…"

"Quantum theory may be formulated using Hilbert spaces over any of the three associative normed division algebras: the…"

"We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growt…"

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man's inability to understand the exponential function."

"Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term …"

"In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoret…"

"I remember having listened to Fermi’s discussions on hydrodynamics with von Neumann. (These took the strange form of …"

"In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there w…"