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The time is passed when mathematics is referred to by the thinkers of the day as being principally a discipline. It is, of course, true that, rightly pursued, mathematics is a discipline, but it is far more, it is a knowledge, a tool, a power, a civilizer.

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To the workaday world the higher ranges of mathematics have been a sealed book; the man who traverses them successfully a magician - a man whose mental occupations awaken mingled feelings of awe and pity, awe that he can soar so high, pity that he wastes his strength in such useless flight.

Clarence Abiathar Waldo

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Clarence Abiathar Waldo

Clarence Abiathar Waldo

Born: January 21, 1852
Died: October 1, 1926 (aged 74)
Bio: Clarence Abiathar Waldo was an American mathematician, author and educator today most famous for the role he played in the Indiana Pi Bill affair.

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