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"1. Mathematics is about the structure of Being."
"2. Mathematics is necessary and true."
"3. Mathematical objects do not exist in a mysterious Platonic heaven totally independent of the physical world. Rather, physical reality is a mental interpretation of a subset of mathematical structure."
"4. Human mathematics is the cultural product of a community of rational beings."
"5. We come to know about mathematics by abstracting structure from the world around us and focusing on the structure of Being mirrored in us."
"6. Mathematics is applicable because it truly describes the fundamental structure of reality."
"7. There are rational beings with mental powers surpassing those of humans who have a deeper insight into mathematics than we do."
"8. Model theory provides the correct picture of how mathematical languages describe mathematical reality."
"9. No mathematics is surplus."
"10. There is one, true mathematics."
"11. There are no absolutely undecidable propositions in mathematics."
"12. Some human mathematics is fiction."
"13. The universe of sets V cannot be Gödel’s L; it must be something like Woodin’s Ultimate L which contains all possible large cardinals and has the semantic resources to witness them."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.