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“In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so.”

Carl Eckart

Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 33.

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“I shall here present the view that numbers, even whole numbers, are words, parts of speech, and that mathematics is their grammar. Numbers were therefore invented by people in the same sense that language, both written and spoken, was invented. Grammar is also an invention. Words and numbers have no existence separate from the people who use them. Knowledge of mathematics is transmitted from one generation to another, and it changes in the same slow way that language changes. Continuity is provided by the process of oral or written transmission.”

Carl Eckart

Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 95.

People , Way , Mathematics , Knowledge

“I shall here present the view that numbers, even whole numbers, are words, parts of speech, and that mathematics is their grammar.”

Carl Eckart

Numbers were therefore invented by people in the same sense that language, both written and spoken, was invented. Grammar is also an invention. Words and numbers have no existence separate from the people who use them. Knowledge of mathematics is transmitted from one generation to another, and it changes in the same slow way that language changes. Continuity is provided by the process of oral or written transmission.
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 95.

Mathematics , Parting