MATHEMATICS is not MATHEMATICS, part 2.

Historically, nature has been compared to a book written in geometric characters.                                                                                                                                       In 1611 Galileo wrote:

“ Philosophy is written in this grand book- -I mean the universe – which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the

language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. “

Shakespeare: “ In natures infinite book of secrecy, a little I can read.”

“Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which I was born.”                                                             Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi, musician, writer,  + 1927

Number is within all of things.       Pythagoras?, 580 – 500 B.C.

The most imcomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.                        Albert Einstein  1879 – 1955

 By them (the Greeks) geometry was held in the very highest honour, and none were more illustrious than mathematicians. But we (Romans) have limited the practice of this art toits usefulness in measurement and calculation.  Cicero, Roman orator, statesman &

philosopher (106- 43 B.C.)

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno of Elea, Greek phiolopher, + 430 B.C.

 Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

                                                                                                Plato

Wholly One: (number 1 )You cannot conceive the many without the one…The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.                                                       Plato

All are parts of one stupendous whole.                          Alexander Pope

Whence shall he have grief, how shall he be deluded who sees everywhere the Oneness?                                                            Isha Upanishad

 It is Unity that doth enchant me.                         Giordano Bruno +1600

 Number proceeds from unity.

  Aristotle, 384 -322 B.C.