Mathematics has always made me feel like I’m connecting with something bigger than my own life. Every time I sit down and engage in my mathematical investigations, I feel I’m peering beyond the boundaries of physical reality, into something infinitely more. Mathematics is the sacred promise underlying all logic, all comprehensibility, all structure necessary for…

For the first four years of my sentence, I worked to learn mathematics in total isolation. It was my safe, lonely hiding place away from the nightmare in my head and all around me, where I could vent all my frustrations and hopes into something meaningful, tangible… something I could cling to during the most…