“I am reminded of those prodigies who spent years of their lives calculating digits of the decimal expansion of pi - a task that is now a mere warm-up exercise for computer software. I cannot help wandering which of my labors will appear equally quaint and pathetic to some future reader who ransacks libraries for old volumes like this one.”

Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 7, On The Teeth Of Wheels, p. 138

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