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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.

Raymond Louis Wilder

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.

Raymond Louis Wilder

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.

Raymond Louis Wilder

Raymond Louis Wilder

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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