“Ninety per cent of all the mathematics we know has been discovered (or invented), in the last hundred years… the advances made in each of some dozen directions are converging into one single discipline uniting algebra, topology and analysis.”

—  George Frederick James Temple

100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

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