Andrew Wiles over olie en wiskunde

Perhaps another thing to say about mathematics in this respect is that it’s a bit like discovering oil. [...] mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet—and physicists will show you they never will—found a way that you can keep on using the same oil forever. However, mathematics is never [...]

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