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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms. – Carl Boyer, 1949, calculus textbook

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Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Mathematics – the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. – Isaac Barrow

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