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G. B. Halsted Quotes

1853–1922 United States

George Bruce Halsted (November 25, 1853 – March 16, 1922), usually cited as G. B.

United States
Mathematicians

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The importance of the creation of the zero mark can never be exaggerated. This giving to airy nothing, not merely a local habitation and a name, a picture, a symbol but helpful power, is the characteristic of the Hindu race from whence it sprang. It is like coining the Nirvana into dynamos. No single mathematical creation has been more potent for the general on-go of intelligence and power.’

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