In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the __ivinity of arithmetic,_ through showing that even the methods, which we now take most for granted, were not given to us from on high, but were actually the result of centuries of scientific efforts on the part of our predecessors. p. 269
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A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the __ivinity of arithmetic,_ through showing that even the methods, which we now take most for granted, were not given to us from on high, but were actually the result of centuries of scientific efforts on the part of our predecessors. p. 269
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