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Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.

— George Frederick James Temple

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The dull and pedestrian researches of Todhunter on the histories of probability, the calculus of variations and the theory of elasticity will always preserve their value for the historiographer.

The historical approach introduces us personally to the great mathematicians and infuses a humane and genial spirit into what can be the most arid and abstract study.

Only by a study of the development of mathematics can its contemporary significance be understood.

The 'language theory' is inadequate as a description of the nature of mathematics.

The function of logic in mathematics is critical rather than constructive.

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