development of quantification and applied knowledge in the 
first phase of Western industrialism, it will be well to notice the 
role of number and mathematics concurrent with the rise of 
movable types. Tobias Dantzig, in his Number: The Language of  
Science , has provided a cultural history of mathematics which 
led Einstein to declare: “This is beyond doubt the most 
interesting book on the evolution of mathematics that has ever 
fallen into my hands.” The explanation of the rise of Euclidean 
sensibility from the phonetic alphabet was given in the early 
part of this book. Phonetic letters, the language and mythic 
form of Western culture, have the power of translating or 
reducing all of our senses into visual and “pictorial” or 
“enclosed” space.

     More than anybody else, the mathematician is aware of 
the arbitrary and fictional character of this continuous,