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There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.
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Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.
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Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.
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Raymond Louis Wilder
Born:
November 3, 1896
Died:
July 7, 1982
(aged 85)
Bio:
Raymond Louis Wilder was an American mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests.
Known for:
Topology of manifolds (1949)
Evolution of mathematical concepts (1968)
Mathematics as a cultural system (1981)
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