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Pure Mathematics
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Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels no interest at all in the physical world; but, in so far as he succumbs to this temptation, he will be abandoning his purely mathematical position.
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― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
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This is not mathematics, it is theology.
(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)
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