What is Math?: How humans speak in math, and what that means for the world

At a profound level, math is the only successful attempt by humanity to speak with precision about things that we can’t point to with our fingers. This is one of the central themes of this book and we’ll come back to it a number of times. In a math book, the most important passages aren’t the theorems or the proofs: they are the definitions. Mathem

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