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Liberty Bell
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A long time ago I read an explanation Richard Feynman did on how the concepts of arithmetic can be derived from basic principles, along the lines of Peano's axioms, but I don't remember where it was. Thanks.
Might you be remembering elements from chapter 22 (Algebra) in volume 1 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics?Liberty Bell said:Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, but I remember him doing an explanation like his algebra lecture but going "further back," starting with sets and natural numbers, and explaining how the concept of "addition" is derived, and from there how you can create the concept of multiplication and other arithmetic operations.
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