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The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

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Julian Coolidge
Age: 80 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 18
Died: 1954
Died: March 5
Historian Of Mathematics
Mathematician
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Brookline
Massachusetts
Julian Lowell Coolidge
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Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.
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But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
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It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
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