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Author : Jules Henri Poincar
: History of Mathematics
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Formerly, when one invented a new function it was in view of some practical goal; today one invents them expressly to point out flaws in the reasoning of our fathers and one will never derive anything from them but that.
From : Chapter 23: Twentieth-Century Legacies, Page 565..
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