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>Actually most mathematicians believe the beauty of mathematics in and of
>itself without any regard to real world applications.
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"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of mathematics so 
as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant 
and also the happiest influence on its development".
Henri Poincare

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it 
because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. 
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature 
were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. Of course I do not 
here speak of that beauty that strikes the senses, the beauty of qualities 
and appearances; not that I undervalue such beauty, far from it, but it has 
nothing to do with science; I mean that profounder beauty which comes from 
the harmonious order of the parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp".
Henri Poincare

"The profound study of nature is the most fertile of all sources of 
mathematical discoveries".
Jean Baptiste Fourier

"Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret 
analogies that unite them".
Jean Baptiste Fourier

"Mathematical Analysis is as extensive as nature herself".
Jean Baptiste Fourier


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