Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly uniq….

I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts..

I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do thin….

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental ….

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was….

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world..

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumer….

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectatio….

When I was a child, my behavior was far from being what most people would label 'intelligent.' It was often limited, repetitive and anti-social. I co….

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important bec….

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could reall….

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just ….

Moment by moment throughout our lifetime, our brains hum with the work of making meaning: weaving together many thousands of threads of information i….

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences..

37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I woul….

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different..

My autism is a very mild form. It was diagnosed at the age of 25, partly because it wasn't diagnosable as a teenager (this is Asperger's syndrome, sp….

I would play with numbers in a way that other kids would play with their friends..

I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged ….

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone..