‘It looks like a miracle,’ he said, after a while. ‘Every day Ibiza has sunsets like this, and I have taken them for granted. Does that make sense?’ It made sense. ‘Galileo called mathematics the language of the book of nature. And we are trapped inside that book. We are words in that language. So it is hard to read and absorb and appreciate what we are inside, what we are familiar with. Just as Marta said, there are patterns everywhere.’

