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Omar Chishti's avatar

There’s a beautiful Bolyai father-to-son quote urging him to publish I read as a child that I’ve been trying to find ever since. Unfortunately I could never figure out which mathematician it was — thanks to this post I finally did!

“When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.”

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Carlo Occhiena's avatar

Liked it a lot, saved for my collections.

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