Alexey Kuznetsov: "The Last Bastion"

“However, the textbook of one of the subjects I teach states that one of the significant differences between humans and animals is the ability for abstract thinking. And I - not such a common case! - agree with him. Knowledge of mathematics tests the presence of this very ability, whatever one may say.

You may not understand its beauty, you may not see any further practical benefit in it (after all, geography is clearly not a “noble” science), but it is difficult to deny that this is also a language. Moreover, it is much more universal than Russian. According to Lobachevsky's definition, this is “the language spoken by all the exact sciences.” From myself I will add to the classics - today, after two hundred years - and many that are inaccurate"