... Did he who made the Lamb, make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Lesson The mother of mathematics is astronomy/astrology ... search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods Quote from Kepler ... what we discuss • Higher Mathematics • Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry with proofs, Calculus etc The minute history of math • There were only two principle explosions of mathematical creativity...