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Numbers and Unicorns
Reading a book on philosophy of mathematics, even if it's written lightly, such as that one, Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all? ...
More than 1000 years later, Pythagoras and his school wished to explain everything in the world using numbers, usually depicted geometrically, drawing pebbles arranged in triangles, squares, rectangles and even pentagons. It stands for Christ, and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal, catching her most chaste odor, will go and lay its head in her lap, offering itself as prey to the hunters’ snares.”“So it is said, Adso. On one side, we have the famous quote of Leopold Kronecker, “ Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
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