In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.Henri Poincare
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
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Science is facts.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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