Nicolas Allen Smoot

“In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read”—Antony and Cleopatra (I.2)

“We may have succeeded at the price of too much eccentricity, or we may have failed; but we can hardly have failed completely, the subject-matter being so attractive that only extravagant incompetence could make it dull”—G.H. Hardy and E.M. Wright, Preface to An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers