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Nov 16, 2016 12:49

"The argument is carried out not in mathematical symbols but in ordinary English; there are no obscure or technical terms. Knowledge of calculus is not presupposed. In fact, one hardly needs to know how to count. Yet any mathematician will immediately recognize the argument as mathematical…

What, then, to raise the old question once more, is mathematics? The answer, it appears, is that any argument which is carried out with sufficient precision is mathematical"
https://theoryclass.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/lloyd-shapley/

Эту историю забыл, стоило добавить в обсуждение "математической реальности" такое наблюдение о неотделимости от "абстрактного мышления" вообще.

познавательное, φιλοσοφία, цытатко

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