Quote by W.S. Anglin
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, bu

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost. Rigour should be a signal to the historian that the maps have been made, and the real explorers have gone elsewhere. – W.S. Anglin

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