The point is to lay bare the inner workings of mathematical growth and change as a historical process, as a process with its own laws and its own 'logic', one which is best understood in its rational reconstruction, of which the actual history is perhaps only a parody.
Punkt on näha palja tööst matemaatilise majanduskasvu ja muutuda ajaloo käigus, kui protsessi, millel on oma seadused ja oma "loogika", üks, kes on paremini mõista oma ratsionaalset ülesehitust, mille tegelik ajalugu on ilmselt vaid paroodia.