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TECHNOLOGY > mathematician, educator, writer > Eric Temple Bell
If a lunatic...
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If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.
Source: In The World of Mathematics, ed. by J. R. Newman, 1956.
-- Eric Temple Bell, (Feb 7 1883-1960), Scottish-US mathematician, educator, writer; He discovered several important theorems in the field of number theory, dealing with the properties of integers.