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— Alfred North Whitehead"Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning."
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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.
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