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Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce to possessions, 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 the 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; it is as incapable of being restricted within assigned boundaries or being reduced to definitions of permanent validity, as the consciousness, the life, which seems to slumber in each monad, in every atom of matter, in each leaf and bud and cell, and is forever ready to burst forth into new forms of vegetable and animal existence.


James Joseph Sylvester


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Did you know about James Joseph Sylvester?

He coined the term "totient" for Euler's totient function φ(n). His father Abraham Joseph was a merchant. James Joseph Sylvester FRS (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician.

At his death he was professor at Oxford. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. James Joseph Sylvester FRS (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician.

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