A Fixed Point
Science is elegant. Mathematics is beautiful.
That was the insight that came to me as I unexpectedly found myself leafing through a whole slew of Scientific American magazines from years gone by. And with that insight came a whole new appreciation of the subject of mathematics that I had devoted my life to teaching. I was struck by how quickly some of the science articles had become outdated, while the math articles retained a timelessness that reflected the one-pointedness of mathematics itself--the fact that the truths of mathematics belong to eternity.