Re:An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)
by alok-g on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:38AM
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Does the book discuss foundations of numbers? Peano's axioms, etc. It does not look like from the contents or the sample chapter.
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Re:An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017)
by martyweissman on Saturday December 22, 2018 @11:08PM
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Nope -- I didn't take an axiomatic approach, or give a set-theoretic construction of different sets of numbers. Instead, I take basic arithmetic and algebra and properties of real numbers as a starting point. I do dwell on things like division with remainder and prime decomposition.