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To find something which is "mathematically certain" is still, as it ever was, the desire of every seeker after "truth."

Arnold Dresden

The application will then, sometimes directly, but more frequently through a chain of intermediate stages, have significant bearing upon the content of human experience and furnish results which may be called true. Their truth then gives, retroactively, a sound basis for belief in the validity of the conclusions of mathematics.

Arnold Dresden

Arnold Dresden

Arnold Dresden

Born: 1882

Died: 1954 (aged 72)

Bio: Arnold Dresden was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. He was a president of the Mathematical Association of America.

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