5 Quotes by Eugenia Cheng

...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.

In a way, mathematics is like an emotion, which can’t ever be described precisely in words – it’s something that happens inside an individual. What.

Mathematics is the logical study of how logical things work.

If people disagree, it’s often a result of different points of view stemming from different fundamental beliefs, not that one is right and the other is wrong.

Thinking about more and more abstract concepts is a bit like the high jump. You have to get yourself over a progressively higher and higher bar, and if nobody explains how to do it, you will keep knocking the bar off and want to give up.