Sofia Kovalevskaya - Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse ...

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Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Viele, die Gelegenheit hatten, mehr über Mathematik zu erfahren, verwechseln sie mit Arithmetik und betrachten sie als trockene Wissenschaft. In Wirklichkeit ist es jedoch eine Wissenschaft, die viel Vorstellungskraft erfordert.

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