It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in a shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and the formless must needs be concealed. And those who uncovered and touched this image of life were instantaneously destroyed and shall remain forever exposed to the play of the eternal waves.


As quoted by Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science (1930)

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It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in a shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and ...

It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in a shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and ...

It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in a shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and ...

It is told that those who first brought out the irrationals from concealment into the open perished in a shipwreck, to a man. For the unutterable and ...