In his late work "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology", Edmund Husserl figure out that the mathematization of nature brought out by modern science have already made a gap between science and life-world. He also figured out that the mathematical science is a result of the symbolizing process of modern mathematics. By comparing the difference between ancient and modern mathematics, Jacob Klein, one of Husserl’s students, made a study on the history of the origin of symbolic mathematics. With this achievement, Klein made a contribution to Husserl’s theory of European Crisis and a new development on Husserl’s project. He disclosed that a true revolution of modern thought was behind the symbolization of modern mathematics. To prove that Klein’s work on history can be a typical example on how a phenomenology method can be used on the study of history, this article also contains a possible explanation on Klein’s research by Husserl’s own phenomenology and a comparison between Klein, Husserl and Derrida’s phenomenology theory on the problem of symbolization and history. |