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There is no sharply drawn line between those contradictions which occur in the daily work of every mathematician, beginner or master of his craft, as a result of more or less easily detected mistakes, and the major paradoxes which provide food for logical thought for decades and sometimes centuries.
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For twenty-five centuries mathematicians have been in the habit of correcting their errors — and seeing their science enriched rather than impoverished thereby. This gives them the right to contemplate the future with serenity.
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Indeed every mathematician knows that a proof has not been "understood" if one has done nothing more than verify step by step the correctness of the deductions of which it is compose d and has not tried to gain a clear insight into the ideas which have led to the construction of this particular chain of deductions in preference to every other one.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym under which a group of 20th-century mathematicians, with the aim of reformulating mathematics on an extremely abstract and formal but self-contained basis, wrote a series of books beginning in 1935.
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