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The march of the discoverer

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    Lyman Holden

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The student must not believe that theorems have been invented or perfected by the methods in which it is afterwards most convenient to deduce them. The march of the discoverer is generally anything but on the line on which it is afterward convenient to cut the road.

Augustus De Morgan

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Holden, L. The march of the discoverer. Educ Stud Math 5, 193–205 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01421026

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