The Undiscovered Country

Math is never just numbers. Isaac Asimov once suggested that when words fail us, we turn to mathematics to describe the inexpressible, the things that terrify us most. He was speaking through fiction, but the observation reaches further than science fiction shelves. Math, in its purest form, is a structure
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