Spencer Heath Archive

Item 238

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath, transcribed and typed onto a 3×5 card

March 27, 1958

Mathematics and logic are the same thing. I think my dumbness with respect to mathematics is result of my unfamiliarity with the language of mathematics.

The basic postulate of all mathematics as it is modernly conceived is that it is abstraction. It deals with nothing in particular, but has to do with anything and everything that can have quantity and with nothing else. It is highly universalized and abstract.

It may be fair to say that any contribution I have made in CM&A is due to my quantifying the subject matter ____________ in terms of specific units.