The underlying ideology of the old humanists is open to a number of criticisms. First of all, there is the purist- absoutist view of mathematics which denies the connection between pure mathematics and it’s applications. To view of mathematics as a pure entity, divorced from the base shadow of it’s applications is to subscribe to a dangerous, unsustainable myth. Many advances in pure mathematics, such as Newton’s contributions to the calculus, cannot be separated from scientific problems and stimuli. Currently developments in computing are profoundly shaping the development of pure mathematics (Steen, 1988). The schizophrenic existence of mathematics as both queen and servant of science can no more be separated, than can waves and particles in quantum theory. Pure and applied mathematics must be regarded as two facets of the same thing.