As a teenager growing up in Toronto, Dick Bond read widely in his search for meaning and purpose - exploring everything from mathematics to human prehistory and ancient history.
That's when he came across One Two Three Infinity by the physicist George Gamow, a book first published in 1947 that explored fundamental scientific concepts that included math, space-time, galaxies and the building blocks of life at the atomic scale.
It sparked his imagination.
"The title almost says it all, which is that you can understand the universe by mathematics," says Bond. "That's a concept that's really hard to believe, but it turns out to be essentially true."
We know it's true because he proved it. Bond spent the next five decades using math to essentially flesh out Gamow's cosmic story.
