The mathematician's best work is art... a high and perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch each other.


In: Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, Chapter III, Section V (p. 139), Houghton Mifflin Company. 1923

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The mathematician's best work is art... a high and perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical...

The mathematician's best work is art... a high and perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical...

The mathematician's best work is art... a high and perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical...

The mathematician's best work is art... a high and perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical...