Julien asked what
she saw in mathematics and she said she found it comforting.
“I might have chosen ‘daunting’ as a more fitting
adjective,” he said.
“It is that too.”
She said that there was comfort to be found in the
permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence
of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be
found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.
“Nothing like life, in other words,” he said. “There, it’s
questions with either no answers or
messy ones.”
Khaled Hosseini,
And the mountains echoed p. 204
( daunting: intimidating, exacting, challenging, fearsome...)
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