One of the defining characteristics of Greek legacy was rational thinking, and from that sprang forward the notion that mathematics has an intimate relationship to the workings of the world. According to Pythagoras, Everything is Number (and for Pythagoras geometry and number were inextractably linked). According to Richard Feynman (1918–1988): "To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. She offers her information only in one form" [69]. Fortunately, simple rules are a basic feature of this language, by whatever name they are known, addition and multiplication, means, cubes or the monomiality principle.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-151-2_4
Publish Year: 2017
