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							- author: Hermann Weyl
 
- content: 'We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget
 
-   what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be idle; there are many
 
-   operations which he may carry out with these symbols, without ever having to look
 
-   at the things they stand for.'
 
- id: ef45368b-aa92-4b27-af2d-809ec2e928ed
 
 
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