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By a happy coincidence, the addresses of the retiring presidents of two leading mathematical societies, delivered almost simultaneously, follow similar lines, although from somewhat difterent angles of view, and are of unusual interest for the man of science whose surmises regarding natural phenomena receive their ultimate justification from mathematical reasoning. Such a man has had cause more and more in recent years to deplore the divorce between the more striking mathematical developments of the present time and those which are urgently necessary as an inspiration to progress in his own work. For, as the two presidents point out, the insistent calì for help to the pure mathematician has now begun, though perhaps reluctantly, to take shape even from the biological sciences.
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NICHOLSON, J. The Relations of Mathematics to the Natural Sciences. Nature 100, 15–16 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100015a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100015a0