'Et moi, ...* si j'avait su comment en revenir, One service mathematics has rendered the je n'y serais point allC:.' human. race. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non- The series is divergent; therefore we may be sense'. able to do something with it. Eric T. Bell O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non- linearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics ...'; 'One service logic has rendered com- puter science ...'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics ...'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'ttre of this series.
- ISBN13 9780792309925
- Publish Date 30 November 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Springer
- Edition 1991 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Language English