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Koagula

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Registered: 2009-11-03

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Yes, it's true, I've solved it.

1+1=2

Last edited by Koagula (2009-11-03 22:49:35)

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: Yes, it's true, I've solved it.

This is a very important result indeed. As Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead showed in their magnum opus Principia Mathematica, it is necessary to prove that 1 + 1 = 2 in order to “re-invent mathematics with set theory”.

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Last edited by JaneFairfax (2009-11-04 08:25:22)

quittyqat

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Re: Yes, it's true, I've solved it.

An astounding mathematical breakthrough! Nobody knew that for years! Centuries, even! It is such a childish concept to say that 1+1=2 is "kindergarten math".

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bobbym

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Re: Yes, it's true, I've solved it.

Hi;

Jane is probably zillions of light years ahead on this but from what I understand that statement 1+1=2 only popped up in the book some 350 pages in. In effect the first 300 or so pages was the preparatory work to that result. Russell and Whitehead were trying to prove that math (set theory particularly) was consistent. Like Hilbert he was trying to remove the pardoxes from set theory. The work of Frege, Church, Turing and Godel proved that his approach could never work.

The book was never finished and is said to have broken him.

Last edited by bobbym (2009-11-04 10:32:17)

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LQ

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Re: Yes, it's true, I've solved it.

So if you hit 2 small hits, the result would be a critical?
I refute this argument since if you eat one apple you are content, but if you eat 2 you are bored, and so 1+1 is not twice as good as 1, it is a totally different experience. But mathematically I suppose it is true.

Last edited by LQ (2009-11-04 10:32:51)

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