"Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that computation, such as doing long division, is not mathematics at all. Calculators can do the same thing and calculators can only calculate they cannot do mathematics."

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Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.1, Courier Corporation

John A. Van de Walle

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