"Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense."

Source : Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.8, Courier Corporation

Edward Kasner

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