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Mathematics is of profound significance in the universe, not because it exhibits principles that we obey, but because it exhibits principles that we impose.

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Mathematics is a vast adventure of ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

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Dirk Jan Struik

Dirk Jan Struik

Born: September 30, 1894
Died: October 21, 2000 (aged 106)
Bio: Dirk Jan Struik was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States.
Known for:
  1. A concise history of mathematics (1948)
  2. Lectures on classical differential geometry (1950)
  3. A source book in mathematics, 1200-1800 (1969)
  4. Yankee science in the making (1948)
  5. Lectures on Analytic and Projective Geometry (1953)

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