Check out this New York Times article from 1992. https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/18/books/books-of-the-times-ruminations-of-a... On May 29, 2018, at 11:57 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com<mailto:jamespropp@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks! Couldn't find the question there, so at least I'm asking something I haven't asked before. It's possible that the person in question was Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. Jim Propp On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Tom Duff <td@pixar.com<mailto:td@pixar.com>> wrote: I believe everything is in https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... fun.mbox/math-fun.mbox You may have to remember your math-fun password to get it. On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 8:14 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote: Some fancy-pants literary intellectual like Louis Menand or Anatole Broyard once unabashedly professed a failure to see the beauty in the proof of the infinitude of the primes (or maybe it was the proof of the irrationality of the square root of two). Does anyone know the quote I'm thinking of? I apologize if I've asked this before, especially if it was in the past five years. (Is there a single document somewhere out there that has absolutely everything that's ever been posted to math-fun?) Thanks, Jim Propp _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg... _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman.xmission.com_cg...