"Mathematics, too, is a language, and as concerns its structure and content it is the most perfect language which exists, superior to any vernacular; indeed, since it is understood by every people, mathematics may be called the language of languages. Through it, as it were, nature herself speaks; through it the Creator of the world has spoken, and through it the Preserver of the world continues to speak."
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Christian Heinrich von Dillmann
Christian von Dillmann (December 30, 1829 - December 18, 1899) was a German teacher and school reformers.
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