The final episode dealt with the beauty of a proof – lamenting, in passing, the disappointingly grinding nature of the computer-generated proof of the 4 colour map question.
A great proof is elegant, concise, spare; the work of an author with a recognisable voice & style.
Like a poem.
It was the language of this book – beautifully read by James Anthony Pearson, whose Lancashire vowels seemed so appropriate to the prose - which gripped the attention.
Adjectives, nouns, verbs which provide their own – unexpected but utterly right – similes, carefully arranged like polished stones.
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