MATHEMATICS EXPLICATORY

("Everything" -- w/o cheating or weirdness -- you "wanted" to know, but I "shouldn't" teach .)


      We all know a subject That has as its object
      Advancing its user's needs forward.
      When "mathematics" is good, It is very very good.
      But when it is bad it is horrid.   
[as in"crabgrass language"]


"The language of calculus ... makes the profound look trivial, and the trivial look profound." Karl Menger.
"95% of the Mathematics Departments of N. A. have opted out of civilization." Richard Bellman
"We have arranged that science and technology cannot be understood ... a prescription for disaster." Carl Sagan
"[Today] production workers must know math." L. Thurow
"Mathematics is language at its best." L. Bloomfield
"[M]athematics is madness of the spirit" A. N. Whitehead

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