We are told such a number as the square root of 2 worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages; their worry was highly credible.
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"I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'."
"I am born into an environment — I know not whence I came nor whither I go nor who I am."
"The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity."
"This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in a single gl…"
"The existence of life on Earth is just a fluke. There is no special reason for it."
Reflecting on historical mathematical discoveries and their initial reception.
Date: Mid 20th century
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