"Mathematics is a tool which ideally permits mediocre minds to solve complicated problems expeditiously."
— Mathematics

January 1, 1970

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Floyd Alburn Firestone, Vibration and Sound (1939) 2nd ed., p. 8, as quoted by Raymond L. Wilder, "The Nature of Modern Mathematics," The Evolution of the Science of Numbers, Quarterly Review of the Michigan Alumnus, Vol. 65, 1958-1959, p. 302.