Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously. (André Weil)

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously.

André Weil

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