Et moi, .... si j'avait su comment en revenir. One service mathematics
has rendered the je n'y serais poin t aUe.- 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- sense', The series
is divergent; therefore we may be able to do something with it. Eric T.
Bell o. lleaviside 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'e1re of this series.