Geneva: Logic Forum (
2018)
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Abstract
A work on the philosophy of mathematics (2017)
‘Number’, such a simple idea, and yet it fascinated and absorbed the
greatest proportion of human geniuses over centuries, not to mention the
likes of Pythagoras, Euclid, Newton, Leibniz, Descartes and countless
maths giants like Euler, Gauss and Hilbert, etc.. Einstein thought of pure
maths as the poetry of logical ideas, the exactitude of which, although
independent of experience, strangely seems to benefit the study of the
objects of reality. And, interestingly as well as surprisingly we are
nowhere near any clear understandings of numbers despite discoveries
of many productive usages of numbers. This is - rightly or wrongly - a
humble attempt to approach the subject from an angle hitherto
unthought-of.