Shayari Bazar

Do you know what the foundation of mathematics is?" I ask. "The foundation ofmathematics is numbers. If anyone asked me what makes me truly happy, I wouldsay: numbers. Snow and ice and numbers. And do you know why?"He splits the claws with a nutcracker and pulls out the meat with curved tweezers."Because the number system is like human life. First you have the natural numbers.The ones that are whole and positive. The numbers of a small child. But humanconsciousness expands. The child discovers a sense of longing, and do you knowwhat the mathematical expression is for longing?"He adds cream and several drops of orange juice to the soup."The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missingsomething. And human consciousness expands and grows even more, and the childdiscovers the in between spaces. Between stones, between pieces of moss on thestones, between people. And between numbers. And do you know what that leadsto? It leads to fractions. Whole numbers plus fractions produce rational numbers.And human consciousness doesn't stop there. It wants to go beyond reason. It addsan operation as absurd as the extraction of roots. And produces irrational numbers."He warms French bread in the oven and fills the pepper mill."It's a form of madness.' Because the irrational numbers are infinite. They can't bewritten down. They force human consciousness out beyond the limits. And by addingirrational numbers to rational numbers, you get real numbers.