There are so, so many of these men freckled throughout history. Paul Erdős, a renown mathematician characterized by his eclectic genius and all-consuming obsession with math, didn’t butter his own toast until he was an adult. There are several stories recounting how he often offloaded domestic or non-math related tasks to the women in his life

The trips mathematicians take allow the diffusion of new ideas with an efficiency otherwise impossible. We love long-term stays. We need time to talk, take coffee breaks, scribble on the blackboard, and pick up the discussion the next day with a question that came to us when we woke up. A Japanese mathematician, Kyoji Saito, wanted to understand th