Between the Mathematical and the Numerical

The numbers are mathematical. But the mathematical is not numerical. This means the mathematical is not reduceable to numbers. When we see things quantitatively, we tend to think that numbers correspond to things. Often, we confuse the forest for trees. The mathematical is the forest and the numbers are merely the trees. In our everyday world, the forest stands...

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There is an aesthetic ugliness.

But there is also an uglification that is constructed to please or delight a certain privileged group.

- Fr Victor Ferrao