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by eointierney 451 days ago
Mathematics is one of our love stories?

Yes! All the endings are happy and the unfinished stories are utterly fascinating. And there are already so many stories with happy endings!

Mathematics is our best bildungsroman

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> Yes! All the endings are happy and the unfinished stories are utterly fascinating.

I'm not sure the practice of mathematical research supports that all the endings are happy, but definitely all the journeys are interesting.

Happy as in Halmos Tombstone