Excellent video by Dr. Wildberger explaining why concept of "real numbers" is rotten.
I second his call to research the sociology and history of these ideas, so we can put mathematics on sounder foundations.
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Title is kind of click bait but he does make an interesting point : mathematics relies on being able to do an 'infinite number of tasks'
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Expressiveness and tractability in knowledge representation and reasoning
http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/dl/course/2006/articles/BrachLev.pdf
@2518 ngl kinda feels like its all converging towards you nowadays 😁 (not that The Material Constructs needs any confirmation)