The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contem...
Negre, Alain
Mathematics is built from the natural integers 1, 2, 3, etc. Numbers are fundamental ordering elements and possess qualitative aspects that are widely present in many traditions such as the Pythagorean or the I Ching. During the building process of mathematical construction, these factors-which physicist Wolfgang Pauli called "primary possibilities" of the unconscious-abandon their symbolic meaningful charge to become quantitative mathematical...
