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| Michael Press |
 Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:06 pm |
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A current thread is popular but unlikely to develop a
satisfying answer as Alfred Korzybski persuasively argues.
Nevertheless I was disposed to note particularly a short
passage in Dunham Jackson's preface to
Fourier_Serries_and_Orthogonal_Polynomials.
"It is the essence of mathematics that it concerns itself
with those relations which lie so deep in the nature of
things that they recur in the most varied situations.
This is particularly true, of course, of the rudimentary
notions of arithmetic and geometry which have forced
themselves on the attention of mankind since the earliest
beginnings of thought."
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Michael Press |
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