...postulates that must be consistent but otherwise may be created by the free will of mathematicians. If this description were accurate, mathematics could...game with definitions, rules, and syllogisms without motivation or goal. The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its...

...otherwise may be created at the free will of the mathematician. As Professor Courant has justly remarked: "If this description were accurate, mathematics could...attract any intelligent person. It would be a game of definitions, rules, and syllogisms without motive or goal. . . . Only under the discipline of responsibility...

...created by the freewill of the mathematician. If this description were accurate, mathematics would not attract any intelligent person. It would be a...meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half- truth. Only under the discipline of responsibility to the organic whole, only guided by intrinsic...