The object of pure physics ... by James Joseph Sylvester, an English Mathematician

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“The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.”

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James Joseph Sylvester

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Name: James Joseph Sylvester

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Sep 3, 1814

Date of Death: Mar 15, 1897

Profession: Mathematician

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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

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Mathematics is the music of reason.

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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

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