#ahnkee's scribbling#

The importance of order, from a purely mathematical standpoint, has been immeasurably increased by many modern development. Dedekind, Cantor, and Peano have shown how to base all arithmatic and analysis upon series of a certain kind ..... Irrations are defined ..... Entirely by te help of order .... Projective geometry has shown how to give points, lines and planes an order independent of metrical considerations and of quantity : while descriptive geometry proves that a very large part of geometry demands only the possibility of serial arrangements.
--- Bertrand, russel (1903)