I am sitting here trying to write something about the thrill I experience from the soul stirring beauty of mathemtics. The flow of the equations, the beauty of the symbols, the way the equations transform under simple rules to reveal new ideas or express something first one way then the other. The way that they bridge the gap between the workings of the natural world and the workings of the mind. I am sitting at this moment in a research laboratory, surrounded by articles, notebooks, and scraps of paper filled with the mathematics that are the gateway to new knowlege and techniques.