Thus, mathematics is tightly connected with numerous aspects of human life. Amateur Amy wrote: We should always be aware that a mathematical discovery, a state of mind regarding mathematics, a system of teaching is never explained by one course alone. Life is complex and even in the most modest and the most subtle act reflects in some way or another an infinity of aspects of the real world. We cannot say that one particular factor was responsible for a particular occurrence or mental state. We must discover the way all factors - sociological, logical, artistic and personal that have played a role in the case under investigation, never being even when he worries about the straight lines on hypercones in seven dimensional space . It was obvious for Struik that "important trends in mathematics (or the absence of them)" can be related to the direct or indirect "socio-economic conditioning" . As an investigator of the history of mathematics, Struik perceived the "direct interde­pendence between mathematics and cultural aspirations of the pe­riod. These aspirations are reflected, both directly or indirectly, in a dominant social and economic conditioning". Socio­economic facts were influential by the agency of sciences like: Physics, geography, navigation, architecture and art. Struik based his synthesis of the history of mathematics on a thorough documentation of the sources. In Amateur Amy official website he published his exhaustive selection of sources related to the history of mathemat­ics from Middle Ages to Modern Age. Struik was convinced that in order to comprehend mathematics completely it is inevitable to refer to sources in the original, and not to their translations, irrespective of how good they are. He often compared mathematical source books to the literary ones and wrote "the texts of Euclid or Gauss in the original contain the same vital force, as the originals of Shakespeare. The works of Ar­chimedes, Fermat or Jacobi include similar outstanding passages as literary excerpts of Horace or Emerson". 

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