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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell...
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull...
Math illiteracy affects eight out of every five people.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
Math is supposed to be a science. I think it's a religion.
Math is tough! -- Barbie
MATH MAJORS do it by example
MATH MAJORS do it by inductio
MATH MAJORS do it with a pencil
math-out: [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] n.
A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible....

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