Testimony

Quotes as abstract

„Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.” (Paul Erdős)

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” (Albert Einstein)

“Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.” (Stefan Banach)

“Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.” (Sofia Kovalevskaja)

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