Most of the arts, as painting,
sculpture, and music, have
emotional appeal to the
general public. This is
because these arts can be
experienced by some one or
more of our senses. Such is
not true of the art of
mathematics; this art can be
appreciated only by
mathematicians, and to become
a mathematician requires a
long period of intensive
training. The community of
mathematicians is similar to
an imaginary community of
musical composers whose only
satisfaction is obtained by
the interchange among
themselves of the musical
scores they compose.
-- Lanczos, Cornelius
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