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Antonio Wolf
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The history of the controversy over the conceptual meaning of the negative sign and numbers is fascinating. It *was never resolved* because mathematics ceased trying to be a science with real content and simply became a science of formal syntax and consistent rule following.
tl;dr: Mathematics, once the science of quantity or magnitude, eventually gave up this claim to save its formalism.
— Feb 06, 2019 11:22AM
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tl;dr: Mathematics, once the science of quantity or magnitude, eventually gave up this claim to save its formalism.








