Opinionated History of Mathematics
What makes a good axiom?
October 04, 2020
How should axioms be justified? By appeal to intuition, or sensory perception? Or are axioms legitimated merely indirectly, by their logical consequences? Plato and Aristotle disagreed, and later Newton disagreed even more. Their philosophies can be seen as rival interpretations of Euclid’s Elements.
History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists
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