“There was a line in one of Poul Anderson’s science fiction books about “Bach, who spoke to God in mathematics”. I have forgotten which book, but not the line itself.”
Anderson’s books were a large part of my 1960s. Great mind.
I still have some of his books but I haven’t read one in a while. My wife and I both like science fiction (though not all the same books) and we have well over 4,000 sf and fantasy books. Probably need to cull out some that we’ll never reread, but that’s never easy.