Steenrod was a careful, methodical man who chose his suits and sports coats according to a mathematical formula and had a mania for thinking up highly logical, if impractical, solutions to social problems like crime. – Sylvia Nasar
Author : Sylvia Nasar
[…] a decade as notable for its supreme faith in human rationality as for its dark anxieties about mankind’s survival […] – Sylvia Nasar