It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. (Eric Temple Bell)

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

Eric Temple Bell

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