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- It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
- The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities…
- If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer…
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