I Like Numbers, post-mortem

Soooo...

Do you like numbers?

I do. I think numbers are wonderful; because they provide one of the best frameworks for doing mathematics, an endeavour that is close to my heart*; because they themselves are the prototypical example of a purely imaginary construct which nevertheless models the world remarkably well; because they are rigid, structured, and ordered, but from them spring complexity of such dizzying and breath-taking scope that you cannot help but be awed by it.

Short 'n' sweet

Like a chocolate-covered dwarf...

IT LIVES!

This is a follow-up to my last post - if you haven't already read that, you should go check it out otherwise this won't make a great deal of sense!