Mathematics, learning, counting, thinking

[Daniel]

Jacob Klein's early 1930's PhD dissertation, here carefully translated from German by Eva Brann, is arguably the seminal scholar's work/study/explication on the fundamental difference between Greek arithmos [number, counting--always "a number of (things)":] and Modern understandings of numbers as symbols, with consequent different ancient/modern mathematics (learning) and thinking. Klein was an early student of Martin Heidegger. As President of St. John's College [Annapolis:] Klein instituted its four year Great Books curriculum of studies.