Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru
Understanding & Collaboration Between Religions (2006)
“If I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upward into a multitude of techniques and theorems while its root drives into the depths, then it seems to me that the impetus of the root.”
Gottlob Frege, Montgomery Furth (1964). The Basic Laws of Arithmetic: Exposition of the System. p. 10
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