Able to cover every field of knowledge, from Philosophy to Engineering.
To make this work, they needed a classification system that was: universal decimal classification
In the late 19th century, two Belgian visionaries, and Henri La Fontaine , looked at the world’s exploding volume of information and saw a looming "Pit of Despair"—a future where human knowledge would be lost simply because it couldn't be found. Able to cover every field of knowledge, from
Using numbers that any person, regardless of language, could understand. two Belgian visionaries
Using symbols like colons (:) or pluses (+) to show how different subjects—like Physics and Medicine —linked together to form new ideas like Biophysics . The System: A Mathematical Map of Mind
The UDC divides all human knowledge into ten main "houses" (classes), numbered 0 to 9: