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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
The Handmaiden of the Sciences.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all
knowledge.
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into read more
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its
thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful
theories.
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so read more
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of
human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted
to the objects of reality?
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but
supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of
sculpture.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a
knowledge of mathematics.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
