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CURIOUS reflections on the present state of scientific knowledge are suggested by the extraordinarily interesting address of Dr. F. L. Hoffman to the social and economic science section of the American Association, at the Toronto meeting last December, on “The Organisation of Knowledge,” published in Science of March 10 and 17. Dr. Hoffman has been for thirty years a very practical organiser of knowledge in connection with his management of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. He has been reading Prof. Whitehead's “The Organisation of Thought,” and it seems to have impressed him with a sense of the remoteness of mathematical principles, mathematical methods, and mathematical research from any organisation of science which is serviceable in practical life.
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The Organisation of Knowledge. Nature 109, 596 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109596a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109596a0