Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different
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A selected quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different
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