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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold… — Bertrand Russell

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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 capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Bertrand Russell
1907
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Russell, Bertrand. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert E. Egner and Lester E. Denonn. Routledge, 2009, ch. 31.
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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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