I have the constant feeling: I will recover, I can recover. I slept very well. None of those dreams or other morbid symptoms. Tomorrow dear O will come to me, and everything will be as simple,
right,
and limited as a circle.
right,
and limited as a circle.
I do not fear this word "limitation."
The function of man's highest faculty,
his reason,
consists precisely of the
{continuous limitation of infinity}
the breaking up of infinity into convenient,
easily digestible portions
— differentials.
The function of man's highest faculty,
his reason,
consists precisely of the
{continuous limitation of infinity}
the breaking up of infinity into convenient,
easily digestible portions
— differentials.
This is precisely what lends my field, mathematics, its divine beauty.
WE, by Yevgeny Zamyatin (excerpt)
Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
Portugal - June - 2011
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