Sublime

At the heart of maths is the desire to understand things rather than just know them.

The key in maths, and with maps, is to find the most appropriate level of abstraction for the given moment.

to a branch of mathematics called ‘topology’, which studies the shapes of things.

A powerful aspect of abstraction is that many different situations become the same when you forget some details.

The inaccuracy of your final answer will now come from the information you threw away when you performed the initial abstraction.

People started realising that those techniques could be used to study other things.

Mathematics is the logical study of how logical things work.