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Ocupation: Mathematician

Life: November 3, 1896 - July 7, 1982

Birthday: November 3

Death: July 7

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Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.

Topics: Appreciation, Perspective, Environment

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There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Topics: Mysterious, Mathematics

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

Topics: Growth, Experience, Branches, Topology

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