Re: math development curiosity question


quat wrote:

Is it possible that different cultures took fundamentally different
approaches to math and worked with different systems?

Like roman numerals vs. Arabic numerals?

Something that has come up often in this newsgroup is whether Cantor's
set theory was inevitable. The argument is that if Kronecker (and maybe
Brouwer) had presented just slightly better arguments, Cantor's ideas
would have never taken root.

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