"Did Galois discover that theorem before or after he died?"

"I was looking over Ephraim Cohen's latest paper, Nymphomaniac Nested Complexes with Rossian Irrelevancies (old Ice Cream Cohen loves sexy titles), when the trouble started. We'd abstracted...were ready for the first tests. I made the Dold invariant and shoved off through one of the passages that linked the isomorphomechanism and the lab."

"Anyway, a mathenaut should never forget his postulates, or he'll find himself floating in 27-space, with nary a notion to be named."

"`By Riemann's tensors!' Pearl cried."

"Speaking as someone who barely remembers any of his high school algebra, I can say that twenty years after I read it I still remember this story and remember enjoying it immensely. I never knew how accurate or valid the representation of mathematics was in this story but it without talking down to me made me feel it was giving me insight into the world and minds of mathematicians. I think this would be a good story to show a young student interested in math."

The kind of Delight that is expected in Good Sci-Fi, here with a lot of Fun in Trying to envisage the situations & applying the Sheer Gibberish as any Kind of Physics/Maths. I liked best of all the Vanishings and yet Returns (or Safe OTHER Conditions the team experienced. (Much more creditable than, say, Simak's 'Time is The Simplest Thing') wherein C.D.S. forgot that - even when 'They' could send a Mind endessly distances- it was STILL IMpossible to send ANY Machine to record the Visit). Found in 'Best of Sci-Fi, 10'.