Re:The Riemann Hypothesis
by empath75 on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:20PM
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I think the big conceptual leap in understanding math is getting beyond the idea that itβs about counting concrete objects in general, and realizing that you can create new sorts of abstract structures that may or may not have anything to do with reality and rules for working with them.
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True! I was enlightened in class when we defined addition and multiplication on three random characters then checked if the commutative property holds.
Turned out you can do whatever you want... It just that usually you want addition to be commutative and usually want to use an infinite set of symbols called numbers.