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Hamlet’s advice to actors, quoted above, speaks to the essence of mathematics: the action and word are neither more nor less than what is required, the virtue of pure thought and its ageless body transcends time and, finally, that mathematics is the mirror that reflects the face of nature.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action,
with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature:
for any thing so o’erdone is from the purpose of playing,
whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as
’twere the mirror up to nature:
to show virtue her feature, scorn her own image,
and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Hamlet Act 3, scene 2
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Nelson, R. (2020). Introduction. In: A Brief Journey in Discrete Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37861-5_1
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