“Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.”

There is an underlying timelessness in the basic conversation that is mathematics.

Mathematical objects are determined by – and understood by – the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

The proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries – how mathematics is one of humanity’s long continuous conversations with itself.

They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas.

Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern Comfort and cured with Kahlua and milk.

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.