= It surely would be intolerable not to know
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A beautiful quote fom Edward Titchmarsh:https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Titchmarsh/quotations/{ref}
> It can be of no practical use to know that <pi> is <irrational>, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.
<Ciro Santilli> believes that it is perhaps for this reason that <simple to state but hard to prove> theorems are so attractive.
This quote was brought to <Ciro Santilli>'s attention at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/recounting-the-history-of-maths-transcendental-numbers-20230627/
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