“Langlands' life has been by no means as extravagant as Grothendieck's, but his romanticism is evident to anyone who reads his prose; the audacity of his program, one of the most elaborate syntheses of conjectures and theorems ever undertaken, has few equivalents in any field of scholarship.”

—  Michael Harris

Source: Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation, 2015, p. 26

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