I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.
  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 days ago

    无. It’s a categorical mistake to try to give them an “essential” structure. They’re a tool we made and find useful for describing a number of structures.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      9 days ago

      yeah, like there aren’t some Platonic shapes out there lmao, these are just constructs we created to help us express certain problems, they don’t have any fundamental properties inherent to them