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Premium Member On First Reading Euclid, Young Bertrand Russell Is Forever Transformed By Mathematics

“Is 'Mathematics...not only [a] Truth,
     but [a] supreme beauty—a beauty cold
and austere, like that of sculpture [uncouth
     to men for whom this concept is too bold],
without appeal to any part of our weaker nature,
   ...

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Categories: euclid, art, beauty, heart, math,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things