Keith Devlin Quotes

What Is Mathematics? Ask This Question Of Person Chosen At Random, And You Are Likely To Receive The Answer "Mathematics Is The Study Of Number." With A Bit Of Prodding As To What Kind Of Study They Mean, You May Be Able To Induce Them To Come Up With The Description "the Science Of Numbers." But That Is About As Far As You Will Get. And With That You Will Have Obtained A Description Of Mathematics That Ceased To Be Accurate Some Two And A Half Thousand Years Ago!

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