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Mathematicians Have Tried In Vain To This Day To Discover Some Order In The Sequence Of Prime Numbers, And We Have Reason To Believe That It Is A Mystery Into Which The Human Mind Will Never Penetrate.

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I Soon Found An Opportunity To Be Introduced To A Famous Professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, He Was Very Busy And So Refused Flatly To Give Me Private Lessons; But He Gave Me Much More Valuable Advice To Start Reading More Difficult Mathematical Books On My Own And To Study Them As Diligently As I Could; If I Came Across Some Obstacle Or Difficulty, I Was Given Permission To Visit Him Freely Every Sunday Afternoon And He Kindly Explained To Me Everything I Could Not Understand.

To Those Who Ask What The Infinitely Small Quantity In Mathematics Is, We Answer That It Is Actually Zero. Hence There Are Not So Many Mysteries Hidden In This Concept As They Are Usually Believed To Be.

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