“Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity. I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.

If we sex the cattle, which is the only way to get at their value, we shall have... 400 cows, 200 yearling heifers.

I couldn't hack it as a teacher, so I jumped ship and flew back to Australia.

The manipulation of the environment through design involves many branches of mathematics: the projective geometry of light transmission, the chaotic and probabilistic maths of weather patterns, and the statistical algorithms required to make analysis legible and obtain discrete building components from continuous distributions.