Paul Wright NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Mathematics Department, University of Maryland 1301 Mathematics Building College Park, MD 20742-4015 E-mail username: paulrite E-mail extension: @math.umd.edu Office: 4105 Mathematics Building Phone: 301-405-5069 Fax: 301-314-0827

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
--E. Kasner and J. Newman, Mathematics and the Imagination, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
--Nikolai Lobatchevsky, in N. Rose's Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh, NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
--Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later, 1978.