Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.
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Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and vain attempts of geometry proper to rise to its level or to emulate it in its flights.James Sylvester
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