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A Quote by Paul R. Halmos on mathematics

...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly great generality is in essence the same as a small and concrete special case.

Paul R. Halmos
Source: I Want to be a Mathematician, Washington: MAA Spectrum, 1985.
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