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Mathematics, if we understand it correctly, is characterized not only by truth, but also by a high order of beauty: cold and austere, a beauty similar to that of sculpture, which does not appeal to any part of our weaker nature, and which lacks the dazzling props of painting and music, but is majestically pure , and is capable of a strict perfection that only the greatest art can show.

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Mathematics, if we understand it correctly, is characterized not only by truth, but also by a high order of beauty: cold and austere, a beauty similar to that of sculpture, which does not appeal to any part of our weaker nature, and which lacks the dazzling props of painting and music, but is majestically pure , and is capable of a strict perfection that only the greatest art can show.

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Hungarian

"A matematikát, ha helyesen fogjuk fel, nemcsak igazság, hanem egyszersmind magasrendű szépség is jellemzi: hideg és szigorú, a szobrászatéhoz hasonló szépség, mely nem fordul gyöngébb természetünk egyetlen részéhez sem, s amely nélkülözi a festészet és a zene elkápráztató kellékeit, viszont fenségesen tiszta, és oly szigorú tökélyre képes, amilyent csak a legnagyobb művészet tud felmutatni."

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