Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme bea…

Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. ✨ The Study of Mathematics (1902)
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