"France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures."

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A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?

— John G. Kemeny