Homogenisation

Homogenisation Synopsis

'Et moi, .... si j'avait su comment en revenir, One service mathematics has rendered the je n'y semis point all,,: human race. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non- The series is divergent: therefore we may be sense'. able to do something with it. Eric T.

Bell O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non- !inearities abound.

Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as:

• 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics .. .'
• 'One service logic has rendered com- puter science .. .'
• 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'etre of this series