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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

That ‘86 pages’ factoid is misleading. They weren’t trying to prove that 1+1=2. They were trying to build a foundation for mathematics, and at some point along the way that prove fell out of the equations.

[-] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I assumed. No way 86 pages are needed for a proof of '1+1=2'.

That being said, it'd be nice for there to actually be a "proof" of 1+1=2, made as concise and simple as possible, while retaining all the precision required of such proof, including a complete set of axioms.

This, obviously isn't is, nor does it try to. It's not the "1+1=2" book, ot's the theoretical fpindations of matheđatics book. Nothing wrong with that.

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