Beyond The Ordinary
Rationalist philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes visualised a world unified by mathematics, in which all intellectual issues could be resolved rationally by local computation. This series of provocative essays takes a modern look at the seventeenth-century thinker's dream, examining the physical and intellectual influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances.
Beyond The Ordinary
I've made my own gambit ππat being The Modern Descartes. I'm For Rent; but My Mind isn't.
Though His Mind Is Not For Rent
Don't put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defence
Riding out the day's events