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Australian Mathematics Teacher | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

That queer quantity "infinity" is the very mischief, and no rational physisicist should have anything to do with it. Perhaps that is why mathematicians represent it with a sign like a love-knot.

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), astrophysicist

The imaginary numbers are a wonderful flight of God's spirit. They are almost an amphibian between being and not being.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), mathematician

So many places

Memorising [pi] has become a hobby for some people. The current world record is 83 431 decimal places, and was ...

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