I think I have already said somewhere that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. - Henri Poincaré

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I think I have already said somewhere that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

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About Henri Poincaré

Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912), generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science.

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Alternative Names: Jules Henri Poincare Henri Poincare Poincare Jules Henri Poincaré Poincaré
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

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It is only through science and art that civilization is of value. Some have wondered at the formula: science for its own sake; an yet it is as good as life for its own sake, if life is only misery; and even as happiness for its own sake, if we do not believe that all pleasures are of the same quality...
Every act should have an aim. We must suffer, we must work, we must pay for our place at the game, but this is for seeing's sake; or at the very least that others may one day see.

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

The essential characteristic of reasoning by recurrence [induction] is that it contains, condensed, so to speak, in a single formula, an infinity of syllogisms.

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