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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Farewell to the Reader
Author : Alexander Soifer
Published in: The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The Third Decade and Further Explorations
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Does Dostoyevsky refer to mathematics in the epigraphs above? Probably not, but his lines are so applicable to mathematics, with their references to proving existence and importance of beauty! Einstein, a connoisseur of Beauty, observes poetic qualities of pure mathematics. Mathematics could be viewed as a science whose truths exist in Nature independently of our mind. It is also used as a tool in a variety of other sciences. In a sense, mathematics is a language, used by many disciplines to make themselves more rigorous. And mathematics could be viewed as an art, which not only reflects Nature, but also creates Beauty that can compete with the Beauty of Nature. The Colorado Mathematical Olympiad exists to spread this Beauty, and to pass this connoisseurship to young minds.