Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Dantzig , Mazur , Mazur (1930), Number, Plume Books, Retrieved on 2012-03-23
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    23 MAR 2012

     Metaphor for the Mathematician

    The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.
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    As a designer of garments for unknown beings, who delights in learning their shape as they go.

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