Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
Science and the Unseen World (1929), VII, p.73
“Horizontal mathematising leads from the world of life to the world of symbols.”
Source: Revisiting Mathematics Education (1991), p. 41
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Context: It remains a real world if there is a background to the symbols—an unknown quantity which the mathematical symbol x stands for. We think we are not wholly cut off from this background. It is to this background that our own personality and consciousness belong, and those spiritual aspects of our nature not to be described by any symbolism... to which mathematical physics has hitherto restricted itself.<!--III, p.37-38
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