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

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 24, “The Integral Wishes to Become a Function” (p. 281; quoting Alonzo Church)