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Proof by fucking obviousness (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd love to see the practical applications of someone taking 360 pages to justify that 1+1=2

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The practical application isn’t the proof that 1+1=2. That’s just a side-effect. The application was building a framework for proving mathematical statements. At the time the principia were written, Maths wasn’t nearly as grounded in demonstrable facts and reason as it is today. Even though the principia failed (for reasons to be developed some 30 years later), the idea that every proposition should be proven from as few and as simple axioms as possible prevailed.

Now if you’re asking: Why should we prove math? Then the answer is: All of physics.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

The answer to the last question is even simpler and broader than that. Math should be proven because all of science should be proven. That is what separates modern science from delusion and self-deception