Madam, - I think the best answer to Kevin Myers's anti-mathematical rant (An Irishman's Diary, April 30th) was given by Galileo Galilei (a man whom I'm sure Mr Myers would approve of, as he too set out to annoy as many people as possible): "La matematica e l'alfabeto nel quale Dio ha scritto l'universo". - Yours, etc.,
TIMOTHY MURPHY,
School of Mathematics,
TCD, Dublin 2.