
Mathematics is a self-contained nucrocosm, but it also has the potentiality
of mirroring and modeling all the processes of thought and perhaps all of science.
It has always had, and continues to an ever increasing degree to have,
great usefulness. One could even go so far as to say that mathematics was necessary
for man's conquest of nature and for the development of the human race
through the shaping of its modes of thinking.
of mirroring and modeling all the processes of thought and perhaps all of science.
It has always had, and continues to an ever increasing degree to have,
great usefulness. One could even go so far as to say that mathematics was necessary
for man's conquest of nature and for the development of the human race
through the shaping of its modes of thinking.