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The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

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Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

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Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavoring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.

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The method of solving problems by honest confession of one's ignorance is called Algebra.

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Mary Everest Boole

Mary Everest Boole

Born: 1832
Died: 1916 (aged 84)
Bio: Mary Everest Boole was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole.
Known for:
  1. Philosophy & fun of algebra (1909)
  2. The preparation of the child for science (1904)
  3. The Forging of Passion Into Power (1910)
  4. Symbolical Methods Of Study (1884)
  5. Lectures on the logic of arithmetic (1903)

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