"Even though math was my favorite subject, I was always confused about new numbers and shapes, too. Most of us learn about math as if it's some ancient thing that got figured out back in Pythagoras's day—not a beckoning frontier."
"Sometimes I love thinking about the explorers of the past. It’s related to colonialism and all that kind of thing, but the idea of setting sail out into the ocean and not knowing what's on the other side."
"Can you imagine what they'd have thought, like, What is this?! Let's try and go around it, and then they try and go around it, and it just keeps going and going... This is the kind of exploration that feels really relevant to modern mathematics."
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