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It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be. Alastair Sim		Saturday Nov 23, 2024
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After proving Euler's formula e^i = -1 in a lecture: Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth. Benjamin Peirce

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	Benjamin Peirce
	(1809-1880) Memoir read before the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, 1870 - American mathematics professor at Harvard, author, researcher.

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Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. After proving Euler's formula e^i = -1 in a lecture: Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.