• The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

    Norbert Wiener: The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
    "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.