数 · shù · Number
节律感
- 数是万物流转和生灭的语言和确定性
Rhythm.
- Number is the language and the certainty of the flow and the arising-and-perishing of all things
三生万物
- 一辨有无，二分向背，三即为多，以生万物。
From three, the myriad things.
- One tells being from nothing; two divides toward from away; three is already “many,” and from it the myriad things are born.
数学
- 代数看程度的变化，
- 几何看关系的变化。
- 实数和虚数看方向的变化。
Mathematics.
- Algebra watches change of degree,
- Geometry, change of relation.
- Real and imaginary numbers, change of direction.