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— William Stanley Jevons"Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science."
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In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.
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It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
— Felix Klein
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