In the most beautiful work, a chain of argument is presented in which every link
is important on its own account, in which there is an air of ease and lucidity
throughout, and the premises achieve more than would have been
thought possible, by means which appear natural and inevitable.
Literature embodies what is general in particular
circumstances whose universal significance
shines through their individual dress;
but mathematics endeavors to present
whatever is most general in its purity,
without irrelevant trappings.
- Bertrand Russell
image: Euler's equation relating trigonometry and complex numbers