"Perhaps the least inadequate description of the general scope of modern Pure Mathematics I will not call it a definition would be to say that it deals with form, in a very general sense of the term; this would include algebraic form, functional relationship, the relations of order in any ordered set of entities such as numbers, and the analysis of the peculiarities of form of groups of operations."
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E. W. Hobson "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science, Section A, (1910}" in: Nature, Vol. 84, p. 287
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