Matter is not important, only form interests them. A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. If mathematics invokes only the rules of logic, such as are accepted by all normal minds . The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Pythagoras Number is the within of all things.
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment. Bertrand Russell Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.