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In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug. Chess sometimes plays a similar role. In their unhappiness over the events of this world, some immerse themselves in a kind of self-sufficiency in mathematics. (Some have engaged in it for this reason alone.)

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Paul Harold Dunn

Paul Harold Dunn (April 24, 1924—January 9, 1998) was a General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Widely considered one of the most dynamic speakers among the General Authorities in the 1970s and 1980s, Dunn was forced to confess in 1991 that he had "not always been accurate" in his speeches and writings.

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