Mathematics Today

Lynn Arthur Steen

A chapter in Mathematics Today Twelve Informal Essays, 1978, pp 1-12 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mathematics does exist. It is inherent in the rational power of man, as much a part of his nature and history as language, art, or religion. Today it is having an enormous (but often unnoticed) impact on science and society. Abstract mathematical ideas, some more than a century old, helped make possible, for instance, the revolution in electronics that transformed the way we communicate and the way we think. Neither radio, television, telephone, satellites, calculators, nor computers would be possible were it not for numerous results of “pure” mathematics. More recent advances in the mathematical sciences have helped improve our ability to predict the weather, to measure the effects of environmental hazards, to study the origin of the universe, and to project the outcomes of elections. Mathematical methods have become indispensible to the proper functioning of our technological society.

Keywords: Contemporary Mathematic; Mathematical Science; Great Mathematician; Georg Cantor; Pure Thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-9435-8_1

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