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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
David Eugene Smith

David Eugene Smith was an American mathematician, educator, and editor.

January 21, 1860 - July 29, 1944
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — © David Eugene Smith
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^i? = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.
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