 Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and...  The Teaching of Mathematics in the United Kingdom - Page 594by Great Britain. Board of Education - 1912Full view - About this book
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