To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics w…

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To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, p.230, Routledge
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