Headline, November10, 2013

''' THIS AWESOME -MIRACLE- 

CALLED : ! MATHEMATIC​S ! '''

For once, allow me the Honour to define Mathematics:

'''Mathematics is the Imagination, Art and Living in the contemplation of Great Things.'''  Every science and art stems from this mother of all knowledge.

!Mathematics!, perhaps more even than the study of Greece and Rome and democracy or whatever, has suffered from the oblivion of its due place in civilization.

Although tradition has decreed that the great bulk of educated men shall know at least the elements of subject, the reasons for which the tradition arose are forgotten, buried beneath a great rubbish heap of pedantries and trivialities.

To those who inquire as to the purpose of mathematics, the usual answer will be that it facilitates the making of machines, the travelling from pace to place,   =and the victory over foreign nations-  whether in war or commerce.

If it be objected that these ends  =all of which are of doubtful value, are not furthered by the merely elementary study imposed upon those who do not become expert mathematicians, the reply, it is true, will probably be that mathematics trains the ''reasoning faculties''.

Yet, the very men who make this reply are, for the most part, unwilling to abandon the teaching of definite fallacies, known to be such, and instinctively rejected by the unsophisticated mind of every intelligent learner. 

And the reasoning faculty itself is generally conceived, by those who urge its cultivation, as merely a means for the avoidance of pitfalls and the help in discovery of rules for the guidance of practical life. All these are undeniably important achievements to the credit of mathematics.

Yet it is none of these that entitles mathematics to a place in every liberal education. Plato, we know, regarded the contemplation of mathematical truths as worthy of the Diety; and Plato realised more perhaps than any other single man, what these elements are in human life which merit a place in heaven.

There is in mathematics, he says,  'something which is necessary and cannot be set aside.......and, if I mistake not, of diving necessity; for as to the human necessities of which the Many talk in this connection, nothing can be more ridiculous than such an application of the words. Celinias.

And what are these necessities of knowledge, Stranger, which are divine and not human? Athenian. These things without some use or knowledge of which a man cannot become a God to the world, nor a spirit, not yet a hero, nor able to earnestly to think and care for man''.

Such was Plato's judgement of mathematics; but the mathematicians do not read Plato, while those who read him know no mathematics, and regard his opinion upon this question as merely a curious aberration.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses  not only truth, but supreme beauty -a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Ever so often, in the days ahead, We will continue to research and produce some of the best works on the subject:

With respectful dedication to Nobel Laureates  Professor Dr Abdus Salam, Government College, Lahore, Pakistan; and Professor Dr Amartya Sen, India, Cambridge and Harvard.

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