"It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations."

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Source : Felix Klein (1893). “The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill”

Felix Klein

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