“He who is unfamiliar with mathematics [literally, he who is a layman in mathematics] remains more or less a stranger to our time.”

—  Christian Heinrich von Dillmann

Source: Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 39.

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