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| Mar 13, 2011 at 7:59 | comment | added | David Fernandez-Breton | Set theory is probably not about "describing ultimate reality", but it certainly has to do with describing what can be thought of as the "ultimate building blocks of mathematical reality". Of course, let's not use this as an explanation of math to a nonmathematician (although, as far as I know, that's the usual explanation of what math is about for philosophers -once I told a philosophy professor that I was working on number theory, and he immediately replied asking whether that had to do with coming up with the "right" definition of number-). | |
| Dec 1, 2010 at 15:15 | history | answered | Amit Kumar Gupta | CC BY-SA 2.5 |