English - Mathematician | September 3, 1814 - March 15, 1897
Mathematics is the music of reason.
James Joseph Sylvester
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
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