Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 41.
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“Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers.”
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 94.
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 42.
“Hunting is doing business with animals.”
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 362.
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 3.
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 33.
“Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.”
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 35.
Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 95.
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.
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