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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."

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"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."

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"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."

"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."

"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."

""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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