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“Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.”

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It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

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The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

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Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.

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