cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulae have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoveries, that we can ge more out of them than was originally put into them”. Heinrich Hertz quoted by Dantzig, Tobias: Number. New York 1967: The Free Press

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