Gian-Carlo Rota over waarheid en verlichting
If the statements of mathematics were mere formally true but in no way enlightening, then mathematics would be no more than a curious game played by some weird people. Enlightenment is what keeps the mathematical enterprise alive, and what gives mathematics a high standing among scientific disciplines.
Gian-Carlo Rota, “The phenomenology of mathematical beauty”, Synthese, Vol. 111, No. 2 (mei 1997), p. 181
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