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• The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.
• Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet…
• The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned…
• In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the…
• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this…
• The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with…
• To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as…
• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and…
• When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by…

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