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In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy — an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

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The real difficulty lies in the fact that only a finite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin, whereas the mathematician is more apt to be interested in the infinite angel problem only.

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Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities — absolute, indisputable and definitive. They have always been in controversy over the developing aspects of mathematics, and they have always considered their own age to be a period of crisis.

Henri Lebesgue

Henri Lebesgue

Henri Lebesgue

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Born: June 28, 1875

Died: July 26, 1941 (aged 66)

Bio: Henri Léon Lebesgue ForMemRS was a French mathematician most famous for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th century concept of integration summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis.

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