"We have heard much about the poetry of……" — Henry David Thoreau

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little… - Henry David Thoreau
"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. The most distinct and beautiful statements of any truth must take at last the mathematical form. We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both."

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