Is (nearly) all mathematics addition?

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cmcraes said:
Division: 1/Multiplication
You are saying, Division : Division.
How does that save you from doing division?
 
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phinds said:
How about these? Do you reckon they reduce to addition?

geometry
topology
abstract algebra
prepositional logic
Fourier analysis
Laplace transforms
differential equations
set theory
game theory

and those are just ones that come to mind and I don't know all that much about math even at the undergraduate level. I'm sure there are lots I'm leaving off that really have little or nothing to do with addition. Your hypothesis is seriously flawed.

Wow, I'm not sure who pissed in your cheerios but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the OP.
 

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