"...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being...."

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Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1869). “Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, Exeter, August 19th, 1869”, p.6

James Joseph Sylvester

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