teaching:topics:number:axioms-formal
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teaching:topics:number:axioms-formal [2024/03/14 12:38] simon [using 'sets' to describe the properties of numbers] |
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| =====logic, mathematics, the world and philosophical considerations===== | =====logic, mathematics, the world and philosophical considerations===== | ||
| - | Here we have been considering the properties of numbers and the structures of collections of number-like | + | <WRAP #philosophy/>Here we have been considering the properties of numbers and the structures of collections of number-like things. This helps us build and work with mathematical models of systems and patterns we see around us. Numbers, and mathematical representations of certain ideas, are part of language. They have been part of human communication, reasoning and decision making since well before any recorded history. |
| - | things. This helps us build and work with mathematical models of systems and patterns we see around us. | + | |
| - | Numbers, and mathematical representations of certain ideas, are part of language. They have been part of | + | |
| - | human communication, reasoning and decision making since well before any recorded history. | + | |
| The description of numbers presented here is quite distinct from any attempt to formalise mathematics | The description of numbers presented here is quite distinct from any attempt to formalise mathematics | ||
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