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Algebra the Beautiful

G. Arnell Williams

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Chapter 7

  • Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things… When language has been well chosen, one is astonished to find that all demonstrations made for a known object apply immediately to many new objects: nothing requires to be changed, not even the terms, since the names have become the same. —Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), Science and Method