"Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature." — Hermann Weyl (via @johncarlosbaez )
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"But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination." (2/3)
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"We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth." (3/3)
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