Notes on the Theory of Schedule Rating

Mathematics is too often thought of, by the unmathematical at least, as concerned merely with numbers. In reality there are extensive demesnes in the field of mathematics in which number is of no concern. But even in those parts of mathematics which involve number the numerical result is usually of secondary importance; the fundamental interest is with the general form from which the numerical result springs as a special case. Mathematics is essentially the study of form and structure, and not only that but it is the study par excellence of form and structure.