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Charlie-Boo

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Re: Definition of Mathematics
Posted: Mar 3, 2012 6:30 PM
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On Feb 29, 12:02 pm, MoeBlee <modem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 28, 5:46 pm, Tony Orlow <bonyto...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> > On Feb 28, 2:15 pm, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> > > Plenty of Mathematics has nothing to do with numbers.
> > Define "number".
>
> Whatever the definition of 'number', a group is not a number, a
> lattice is not a number, a topology is not a number, etc. It's clear
> enough that mathematics encompasses many things that are not numbers.
>
> MoeBlee


I am a mathematician and I am not a number!!!

C-B


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