“Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.”

— Oswald Veblen

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 30 (1924), p. 289.

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American mathematician 1880–1960

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