The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell
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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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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 is the making of marks on paper.
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