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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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The modern, and to my mind true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training of the reasoning powers not because it is abstract, but because it is a representation of actual things. T. H. Sanford

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	T. H. Sanford
	In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.

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The modern, and to my mind true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training of the reasoning powers not because it is abstract, but because it is a representation of actual things.