2015 - Conservation - Formalism, this purpose being the skilful operation

Mathematics is the science of skilful operations with concepts and rules invented for a purpose. As someone once wrote - Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack. It is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes. It is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests.







It is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined. It is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations. Its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze. It is as incapable of being restricted within assigned boundaries or being reduced to definitions of permanent validity, as the consciousness of life, which seems to slumber in each monad, in every atom of matter, in each leaf and bud cell, and is forever ready to burst forth into new forms of vegetable and animal existence. As with other forms of entertainment, dance is sometimes performed to raise awareness of social issues. For example, dance performances have been used to raise awareness of diabetes, violence against women, protecting water resources, Alzheimers, and breast cancer.