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• In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading…
• Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of…
• Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
• Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
• Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.
• Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to…
• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
• If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the…
• The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
• Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also…
• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now,…
• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

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