A perceptive review of Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life—
"Page 185: 'Whatever else we are, we are also mad.' "
Related material— last night's Outside the Box and, from Oct. 22 last year—
"Some designs work subtly.
Others are successful through sheer force."
Par exemple—
See also Cartier in this journal.
The Cartier link leads to, among other things…
“A Mad Day’s Work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich.
The Evolution of Concepts of Space and Symmetry,”
by Pierre Cartier, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society ,
Vol. 38 (2001) No. 4, pages 389-408