I began to understand that pure mathematics was more than a collection of random tools mainly fashioned for use in the Cambridge treatment of natural philosophy.
[a quotation by J E Littlewood]
Forsyth was not good at delta and epsilon.
Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections (Dublin 1993)
JOC/EFR February 2006
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