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I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secre

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers. – Sir Thomas Browne

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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didnt even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? – Lewis Carroll

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