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"Perhaps the least inadequate description of the general scope of modern Pure Mathematics—I will not call it a definit…"

"A great department of thought must have its own inner life, however transcendent may be the importance of its relatio…"

"I have said that mathematics is the oldest of the sciences; a glance at its more recent history will show that it has…"

"Much of the skill of the true mathematical physicist and of the mathematical astronomer consists in the power of adap…"

"Who has studied the works of such men as Euler, Lagrange, Cauchy, Riemann, , and Weierstrass, can doubt that a great …"

"The actual evolution of mathematical theories proceeds by a process of induction strictly analogous to the method of …"

"The opinion appears to be gaining ground that this very general conception of functionality, born on mathematical gro…"

"If the question be raised, why such an apparently special problem as the quadrature of the circle, is deserving of th…"

"In the year 1775, the Paris Academy found it necessary to protect its officials against the waste of time and energy …"