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“The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.”

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It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

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Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

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The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity…

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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

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The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take…

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Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

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Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road…

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Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

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Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

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