The concepts of mathematics, despite their unfamiliarity, are infinitely accessible. At their deaths, those who have minded mathematics will have known the continuous functions better than the crooked human heart. That so abstract a consideration should in the end be so lucid is a source of wonder.


A Tour of the Calculus, Chapter 15 (p. 143), Pantheon Books. 1995

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The concepts of mathematics, despite their unfamiliarity, are infinitely accessible. At their deaths, those who have minded mathematics will have...

The concepts of mathematics, despite their unfamiliarity, are infinitely accessible. At their deaths, those who have minded mathematics will have...

The concepts of mathematics, despite their unfamiliarity, are infinitely accessible. At their deaths, those who have minded mathematics will have...

The concepts of mathematics, despite their unfamiliarity, are infinitely accessible. At their deaths, those who have minded mathematics will have...