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• To do mathematics is to adopt a particular attitude of mind in which what we term relationships per se are of interest. One can be considered a mathematician when one can isolate relationships from real and complex situations and later on when relationships can be used to create new situations in order to discover further relationships. Teaching ma...
• Accordingly, it is both an object of understanding and a means of understanding
• ow is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? Is there not something paradoxical about this? Here is a science which appeals only to fundamental principles of logic, to the principle of contradiction, for instance, to what forms, so to speak, the skeleton of our understanding, to what we could not be deprive...

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