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• One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
• Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on…
• In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of…
• The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.
• The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.
• Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as…
• One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World…

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