One SCI\ice mathematics bas rendered the 'Et moi, .... si j'avait su
comment en revcnir. je n'y serais point aile: human race. It bas put
common sc: nsc back where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next Jules
Verne to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded n- sense'. The series is
divergent; therefore we may be able to do something with it. Eric T.
Bell O. Hcavisidc 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'etre of this series.