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David Eugene Smith on Mathematics

1860–1944 United States

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The excellent work of Tropfke is an example of the tendency to break away from the mere chronological recital of facts.

History of Mathematics (1923)

The field of mathematics is now so extensive that no one can [any] longer pretend to cover it, least of all the specialist in any one department. Furthermore it takes a century or more to weigh men and their discoveries, thus making the judgment of contemporaries often quite worthless.

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