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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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Born:
January 12, 1915
Died:
February 12, 2001
(aged 86)
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