The word mathematics is a Greek word and, by origin, it means something that has been learned or understood, or perhaps acquired knowledge, or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, acquirable knowledge, that is, learnable knowledge, that is, knowledge acquirable by learning.

Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it wants to bring about the truth it proclaims a form of action, of ritual behavior, which does not find fulfilment in the act but must proclaim and elaborate a poetic form of truth.