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Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

Mary Everest Boole

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Mary Everest Boole
Age: 84 †
Born: 1832
Born: March 11
Died: 1916
Died: May 17
Mathematician
Philosopher
Wickwar
Gloucestershire
Science
Possession
Must
Mathematics
Always
Competition
Teaching
Dead
Attitude
Prevails
Taught
Communal
Living
Everest

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The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.
Mary Everest Boole