'Bt moi ..... si j'avait 50 comment en revenir. je One service IlUllbcmatics has rendered the human race. It has put common sense back n'y ser.lis point a116.' IulesVeme where it belongs. on the topmost shelf next to
the dusty canister labelled 'discarded IIOIISCIISC·. Erie T. Bell The series is divergent; thelefore we may be able to do something with it. O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world
where both feedback and nonlineari­ ties abound. Similarly. all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sci­ ences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds
such statements as: 'One ser­ vice topology has rendered mathematical physics .... ; 'One service logic has rendered computer science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And
all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'8tre of this series.