Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
The first sentence of the wonderful Ada Lovelace seems disappointingly positivistic; but is immediately counteracted by the second one. For it is not about the obvious, the mere appearance, but about the communication between things, and this is anything but … Weiterlesen