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Quote by Niels Henrik Abel

“He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.”

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Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of mathematics, particularly in elliptic functions and integral equations. His work had a profound impact on later mathematicians, especially his proof that algebraic equations cannot be solved by radicals, known as the Abel-Ruffini theorem. more

“A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war, number mysticism, astrology, and religion. In some instances, writers, hoping to assert for mathematics a noble parentage and a pure scientific experience, have turned away their eyes. Histories have been eager to put the case for science, but the Handmaiden of the Sciences has lived a far more raffish and interesting life than her historians allow.”

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Author:Eric Temple Bell

“If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.”

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Book:Men of Mathematics

Source: Men of Mathematics

“Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.”

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Book:Early Letters

Source: Early Letters

“Just go on..and faith will soon return.”