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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. Philip J. Davis

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	Philip J. Davis
	Number, Scientific American, 211, (Sept. 1964), 51 - 59 - Mathematician.

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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories. The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.