No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
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Hypotheses are what we lack the least.Henri Poincare
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means . . . .
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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