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Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. W. S. Anglin

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	W. S. Anglin
	'Mathematics and History', Mathematical Intelligencer, v. 4, no. 4 - Canadian, mathematician, philosopher, author, University of Toronto.

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Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere.