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mathematics. The two relatively simple problems, the
determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the
circumference of a circle, revealed the existence of new
mathematical beings for which no place could be found
within the rational domain. . .
A further analysis showed that the procedures of
algebra were generally just as inadequate. So it became
apparent that an extension of the number field was
unavoidable. . . . And since the old concept failed on the
terrain of geometry, we must seek in geometry a model
for the new. The continuous indefinite straight line seems
ideally adapted for such a model.
Number is the dimension of tactility, as Ivins explained in
Art and Geometry (p. 7): “In any continuous pattern the hand
needs simple and static forms and it likes repeated ones. It