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No mathematician can be a complete mathematician unless he is also something of a poet
K. Weierstrass
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,
but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere,
like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part
of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings
of painting or music, yet sublimely pure,
and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation,
the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone
of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry
Bertrand Russell, in Study of Mathematics
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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.
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