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Hermite, Charles - The realm of mathematical truths is spiritual
Identifier
014540
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
—Charles Hermite; cit. by Gaston Darboux, Eloges académiques et discours, Hermann, Paris 1912, p. 142.