"Dirk Pitt is a fictional character created by American novelist Clive Cussler
and featured in a series of novels published from 1976 to 2009. Pitt is a
larger-than-life hero reminiscent of pulp magazine icon Doc Savage."
"Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician."
— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here in Two Views of Finite Space.
Author Clive Cussler, who reportedly died Monday at 88 —
“I detested school,” he told Publishers Weekly in 1994.
“I was always the kid who was staring out the window.
While the teacher was lecturing on algebra, I was on
the deck of a pirate ship or in an airplane shooting down
the Red Baron.”
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