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Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. Achille-Claude Debussy		Thursday Nov 21, 2024
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We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?' Gian-carlo Rota

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	In preface to P. Davis and R. Hersh The Mathematical Experience, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1981.

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We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?'