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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

~E. T. Bell

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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Abstract Also Becomes Lives Longer Mathematics More Possibly Practical Therefore

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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

~E. T. Bell

Topics: Any Application Austere Degenerate Doubt Formulas General Incapable Indeed Neat No Doubt Particular Pretty Pursuit Quest Quickly Silly Theorems Very Vice Which

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Mathematician

Born: February 7th, 1883

Died: December 21st, 1960

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