Geordie Williamson comes home to establish $5 million world-class maths centre

By Tim Elliott
July 16 2018 - 1:00pm

Maths begins with numbers, and numbers go on forever. They never stop. You could start at zero and keep counting until you died of old age. In this sense, maths is like space. When most people think of numbers they come to a notional horizon, beyond which they cannot conceive. It's possible then to picture great mathematicians as astronauts, sailing into the deepest reaches of the intellectual universe, through clouds of cosmic dust, to penetrate, via wormholes of superheated logic, the dark matter of the mind. Geordie Williamson is on one such journey. But first, he must eat lunch.

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