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God created the real numbers
07-14-2025 7:37PM (ET) 08-28-2025 12:03AM (ET) (edited) W. Jherek Swanger writes in his introduction to Camillo7 Agrippa's "A Treatise on the Science of Arms, with a philosophical Dialogue (1553)" that: "Scienzia [...] was and is often held to relate only to the study of the eternal: that which exists in nature, or was created by God.
16th Century Italy asks then if science is concerned only with divine (natural) knowledge and art is the realm of the secular and human-made, then was Leopold Kronecker right when he said: If such a divinity left fingerprints in mathematics, that inhuman complexity and irrational strangeness can be found in the reals but not the integers. If the something under examination causes a sense of existential nausea, disorientation, and a deep feeling that is can't possibly work like that, it is divine.
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