The Greatest
Mathematician

Every genius is confronted with the incredible feeling that a Being greater than himself is at work in the universe. It is a measure of his greatness that he can bow to another infinitely greater Being.

God is another artist,” said Picasso, “He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat.” Einstein once observed that God was subtle, not malicious, and very clever. On a visit to Bombay, Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, the distinguished mathematician, said that God was a mathematician—not exactly a new idea since Sir James Jeans had seriously put forward the idea—nearly a century ago that the universe was the work of a mathematician. In contrast, centuries before that, Pythagoras had concluded that all things were numbers. The greatest of human mathematicians have come across such complexities in their subjects that they have finally understood the meagreness of their grasp of the subject. Every genius is confronted with the incredible feeling that a Being greater than himself is at work in the universe.

Those who do not recognize the signs of God throughout the universe are spiritually blind, and those who see them but still do not believe in God will suffer from the warping of the soul, which will leave them morally stunted for all of their lives. God conveys His message innumerably, but only those genuinely receptive to it will receive His eternal blessings.