And where did you learn that anyone can just sit down and make up one’s own mathematical systems? I am certain that I taught you no such thing. Mathematics, my boy, is based on logical interpretation of known facts. One cannot just go off half-c****d and make up one’s own system. What would happen to mathematics as a science if anyone should just arbitrarily decide that two added to two yields five or that two multiplied by two equals one hundred?
You said that the whole thing came to you “in a flash” last summer when you were sitting under an apple tree and one of the fruit fell and struck you on the head. I suggest that you see a good physician; blows on the head often have queer effects.
If you have the data to prove your contentions, and can show how your postulates were logically de
