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A defining moment in mathematics and the Gay Marriage decision (1110 words) |
 | A defining moment in mathematics and the Gay Marriage decision |
| Mathematics was an ancient word, its history extends the length of the history of civilization. |
| To insist on X as the same as mathematics would put too much restriction on the usage of the word, cutting off its informal meaning used by people with various levels of experience of mathematics seemed to me to be too big a step. |
| The Mathematical Experience (3068 words) |
| Mathematics, asserted Henry Cornelius Agrippa, a popular philosophical magician of the sixteenth century, is absolutely necessary for magic, "for everything which is done through natural virtue is governed by number, weight and measure. |
| Mathematics, in an earlier view, is the science of space and quantity; in a later view, it is the science of pattern and deductive structure. |
| Mathematics is the science of the infinite, its goal the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means. |
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