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I believe very strongly in helping other people understand things. There's no point knowing things if you don't help other people know...

— Eugenia Cheng Keynote: How to bake "How to Bake Pi (2016)

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Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.

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This is the point of understanding the abstract structures inside things.

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The trouble with this is that nothing behaves logically.

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Math, unfortunately is presented in this very ingressive way, despite the fact that when you get to the research level, it's very congressive.

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I don't believe that one should have anything without sharing it, and that includes knowledge, money, food, love...

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