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• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…
• It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas…
• For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What…
• Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic…
• Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.
• With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus…
• Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
• With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.
• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its…

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