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The Handmaiden of the Sciences.

[As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.