ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a very brief sketch of the value of Marxism and Marxist ideas in mathematics. The development of mathematics should be studied in the first place in relation to the economic system in which it developed, and particularly to the economic needs of the society in question, and secondly, in its internal development, that is to say, in relation to past history of methods. The most remarkable feature of Milne's cosmology is that whichever set of scales they adopt, it is clear that the laws of nature are changing. Milne was satisfied with cosmology in Relativity, Gravitation and World-Structure, published in 1936. It enabled him to deduce from simple postulates the existence of a great variety of phenomena, from gravitation to cosmic rays. And as he is a theist, the idea of creation did not trouble him. Among the oddest features of his cosmology are the gradual diminution of gravitational constant, and the increase of angular momentum.
