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David Roberts
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Do we need more than the periods?

Reading this question, and the Wikipedia page on reverse mathematics, I wonder whether one needs more than the subfield $\mathcal{P} \subset \mathbb{C}$ of periods for applied mathematics, or indeed weak forms of pure mathematics.

David Roberts
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