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It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
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A mathematical science is any body of propositions which is capable of an abstract formulation and arrangement in such a way that every proposition of the set after a certain one is a formal logical consequence of some or all the preceding propositions. Mathematics consists of all such mathematical sciences.
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John Wesley Young
Born:
November 17, 1879
Died:
February 17, 1932
(aged 52)
Bio:
John Wesley Young was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, introduced the axioms of projective geometry, coauthored a 2-volume work on them, and proved the Veblen Young theorem.
Known for:
Projective Geometry (1910)
Elementary Mathematical Analysis (1917)
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