In instalment 3 we looked at a serious social and educational crisis undermining the meaning of ‘truth’, and its inevitably deeply damaging effect on mathematics —which seeks, as it were, to copperbottom truth by raising it to the status of rigorous proof.  In instalment 4 we looked at a glaring, […]

In this instalment we look at the most howling mistake ever made in maths. But it went unnoticed.  It was then, unaccountably, accepted into the official body of mathematical thinking. This is a howler which has generated untold consequences. It was a very simple mistake,  but subsequent scholars evidently took […]

It will not have escaped the notice of most readers that we are passing through a period of crisis and general unease. The amount of rigour being applied in public affairs seems to have fallen to an all-time low. Lying seems to have become an accepted mode in parts of […]

The purpose of this website is to put a body of new thinking and analysis into the public domain. It is an emphasis which can bring reasoning back into mathematics, and not just as a minor item, but as the central core of the discipline. There was, during the 20th […]