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The modern, and to my mind the true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training of the reasoning powers, not because it is abstract, but because it is a representative of actual things.
Truman Henry Safford
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Born:
January 6, 1836
Died:
June 13, 1901
(aged 65)
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Truman Henry Safford was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director.
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