Herbert Robbins - What Is Mathematics? (1941)

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For scholars and layman alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that alone can answer the question: What is mathematics?

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The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of responsibility to the organic whole, only guided by intrinsic necessity, can the free mind achieve results of scientific value.

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