| ??? 08/25/06 14:29 Read: times |
#123016 - All about nothing Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jez Smith said:
Did man discover 0 or did he invent it? There is a long-standing debate on whether mathematics is discovered or invented, but the consensus of opinion among mathematicians is that it has an independent existence and therefore is discovered. if the natural numbers exist outside the physical world in some kind of platonic way,as plato thought the numbers existed waiting for man to discover them where does 0 exist?, It's a point in an n-dimenensional space, where n >= 1. you can say there are exactly 0 pink and purple spotted three legged wilderbeast in wolverhampton, but does that actualy mean anything of is 0 just a tautology? Zero isn't a tautology, it's a number, just as real as any other number. For the real low-down on zero, read The Book of Nothing by John D. Barrow (ISBN 0-375-42099-1). Three hundred pages about nothing at all :-) |
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