“Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.”
Quote by Hermann Weyl
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician born on November 9, 1885, and died on December 8, 1955. He made significant contributions to various fields of mathematics, including algebra, geometry, group theory, and mathematical physics, which had a profound impact on the development of mathematics in the 20th century. more
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