I found the following passage amusing :)
The average man identifies mathematical ability with quickness in figures. "So you are a mathematician? Why then you have no trouble with your income-tax return!" What mathematician has not been at least once in his career so addressed? There is, perhaps, unconscious irony in these words, for are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to excessive income?
Tobias Dantzig - Number: The Language of Science - Feb 2007 (original 1930)
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