GREAT BOOKS OF THE WORLD – PART 9

“The great book of nature is written in mathematical language.”
Galileo Galilei

“In the Beginning” by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe (courtesy of College of Random):

“In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic.
How else to describe the patterns in our heads that — by some mysterious
agency — capture patterns of the universe around us?”
Ian Stewart

Courtesy of Cristóbal Vila:

“Algebra is but written
geometry and geometry is
but figured algebra.”

Sophie Germain
mathematician

Courtesy of TIFF Originals:

I have faith in reading’s power and the learning and imagination it nourishes. There is a danger that in our in-the-moment news feeds, the time of selfies obsession defines identities, which hide from our view the complexity of feelings and ideas that books demand we quietly and determinedly engage in. That is why I have started the Literary Series, and I am elated…