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How math helps me answer life’s greatest questions

“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” This line, written by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, expresses a sentiment contrary to what many Hillsdale students may think. The popular belief that mathematics is pure calculation ignores the beauty of logic to which Millay alludes. This logic, critical to our liberal arts education, pervades all...