-- The Modern Word

-- To really know a subject you've got to learn a bit of its history....

-- John Baez, August 4, 2002

We both know what memories can bring;
They bring diamonds and rust.

--  Joan Baez, April 1975 

All sorts of structures that can be defined for finite sets have analogues for the projective geometry of finite fields....

Clearly this pattern is trying to tell us something; the question is what. As always, it pays to focus on the simplest case, since that's where everything starts.

-- John Baez, August 4, 2002

In the beginning was the word....

-- The Gospel according to Saint John

The anonymous author of John makes liberal use of allegory and double-entendre to illustrate this theme.

-- The Gospel of John

Born yesterday: Logician John Venn. 

Venn considered three discs R, S, and T as typical subsets of a set U. The intersections of these discs and their complements divide U into 8 nonoverlapping regions....

-- History of Mathematics at St. Andrews

Who would not be rapt by the thought of such marvels?....

-- Saint Bonaventure on the Trinity