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Let None But Geometers Enter Here
—On the entrance to Plato’s academy in Athens
When not in the midst of discovering anything,
this mathematician may humble himself
of a compass not pertinent to society.
And when he does have a cogency to a result discovered,
he may find himself, indeed,
important to society
for his own relation to mathematics,
and it seems he could make himself, by this rank,
relevant to the world.
Mathematicians are not,
generally,
people’s people.
Similarly, poets
are not, usually,
mathematicians’ mathematicians.
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Goldstein, L. Non-Centrifugal Mathematics. Math Intelligencer 41, 97 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09890-y
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