I have been an amateur mathematician for the last few decades, tutored students over the years from time to time, and also written a few research papers. I have a passion for my subject, and have always found tutoring to be an intellectually and socially rewarding activity. "One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and intelligence of their own, that they are wiser that we are, ... that we get more out of them than was originally put into them." "Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition."