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Equality doesn't exist in mathematics. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pdf http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pd
by kolpa 9y ago
Equality doesn't exist in mathematics.
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pdf http://www.math.harvard.edu/~mazur/preprints/when_is_one.pdf
The punchline:
> In appropriate deference to the manifold ways an object can be presented to us, objects need only be given up to unique isomorphism, this being an enlightened view of what it means for one thing to be equal to some other thing.
- alphaalpha101 9y agoEquality absolutely does exist in mathematics.