TTC - Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers

TTC - Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers
Course No. 1499 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) | Taught by Edward B. Burger
Williams College | Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
6.79Gb @ RS & Sto

What is your definition of number?

The question is a challenging one because defining the abstract idea of number is extremely difficult. More than 2,500 years ago, the great number enthusiast Pythagoras described number as "the first principle, a thing which is undefined, incomprehensible, and having in itself all numbers." Even today, we still struggle with the notion of what numbers mean.

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