Timeline for To what extent is it true that "number theory = mathematics"?
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| May 29, 2010 at 21:58 | history | edited | Burhan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| May 29, 2010 at 21:48 | comment | added | Burhan | ah, i get it. i think i misunderstood John Stillwell's question, which, as you said, was more about culture than about the foundations. | |
| May 29, 2010 at 14:58 | comment | added | Charles Staats | I don't think they're related at all. The Continuum Hypothesis is a question about foundations. The issue at hand arises from culture: we now have foundations sufficiently powerful to include almost anything we might want to call mathematics, but that is roughly equivalent to having a natural language in which almost anything can be written. You still need criteria for determining which things are worth writing or reading, and that's where the "bottom-up" approach comes in. | |
| May 29, 2010 at 13:20 | history | answered | Burhan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |