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“ Only dead mathematics can be taught where competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession. ”

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Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them.

~ Mary Everest Boole

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