29 May
2018
29 May
'18
9:14 a.m.
Some fancy-pants literary intellectual like Louis Menand or Anatole Broyard once unabashedly professed a failure to see the beauty in the proof of the infinitude of the primes (or maybe it was the proof of the irrationality of the square root of two). Does anyone know the quote I'm thinking of? I apologize if I've asked this before, especially if it was in the past five years. (Is there a single document somewhere out there that has absolutely everything that's ever been posted to math-fun?) Thanks, Jim Propp