Peacock Quotes (1)
Like the crest of a peacock, like the gem on the head of a snake, so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.
From the oldest extant Indian astronomical text, Vedanga Jyotisa (c. 500 B.C.). Quoted, as cited by George Gheverghese Joseph, in Dick Teresi, Lost Discoveries (2003), 28. G. G. Joseph has written a book by the title Crest of the Peacock (1991).
