The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. - Edward Kasner

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Edward Kasner

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

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Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

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The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of tomorrow.

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Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

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There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0. . . It appeals equally to the mystic, the scientist, the philosopher, the mathematician.

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. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

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Australian cattle dogs, are not like Labradors, where they just like to just sit around by the fire and get petted. They're working dogs, so they have a lot of energy, and they can drive you crazy.

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She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.

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