Numbers feel very simple and obvious to us. But they only exist because people observed the real world, spotted patterns in it, and built abstractions to represent those patterns.
Tom Stuart talks about honest abstractions in A Lever for the Mind.
Numbers feel very simple and obvious to us. But they only exist because people observed the real world, spotted patterns in it, and built abstractions to represent those patterns.
Tom Stuart talks about honest abstractions in A Lever for the Mind.
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