“The golden age of mathematics - that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours.”

—  Cassius Jackson Keyser

Source: The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses, p. 268

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American mathematician and journalist of pronounced philoso… 1862–1947

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