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Benjamin Peirce on Mathematics

1809–1880 United States

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Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Linear Associative Algebra (1882)

Mathematics, under this definition, belongs to every enquiry, moral as well as physical.

Linear Associative Algebra (1882)

Ideality is preëminently the foundation of Mathematics.

[Mathematics is] the science that draws necessary conclusions.

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