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No one really understood music unless he was a scientist,
her father had declared, and not just any scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language is mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contain
the essential meaning of life."
-- Pearl S. Buck
" At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling asfirst love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Genetic engineering, designer drugs, diesel engines, digital TV, financial markets, paper mills, electric power, insurance rates, inflation statistics, computer chips, compact disks, credit cards, car doors, circuit boards. Mathematics is everywhere in modern business and industry."
-- Industrial Mathematics Website |
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