Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. (William Thomson)

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

William Thomson

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