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what are numbers

What Are Numbers?

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Introduction When doing mathematics,  we usually take for granted what natural numbers, integers, and rationals are. They are pretty intuitive.   Going…
history of numbers

Counting to p-adic Calculus: All Number Systems That We Have

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An entire book could easily be written about the history of numbers from ancient Babylon and India, over Abu Dscha'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Chwarizmi (##\sim…
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Why Mathematics Defines Numbers and Functions as Sets

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Direct answer: Standard mathematics defines numbers, functions, and other objects as sets because the 19th-century collapse of certainty in Euclidean geometry…