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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.  (Richard Courant Quotes) Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the comtemplative reason, and the desire for aestetic perfection.  (Richard Courant Quotes) For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?  (Richard Courant Quotes) Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science  (Richard Courant Quotes) It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together  (Richard Courant Quotes)