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: My own attitude, which I share with many of my colleagues, is simply that mathematics is a language.

Like English, or Latin, or Chinese, there are certain concepts for which mathematics is particularly well suited: it would be as foolish to attempt to write a love poem in the language of mathematics as to prove the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra using the English language.

-Schwarzenberger ( 2000 )