Wednesday, December 30, 2009

How does one prove that the arithmetic operations extend into the complex numbers?

Early in the last century Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead set out to ';prove'; the basis of mathematics using formal logic. After about 350-some pages, they'd proven that 1 + 1 = 2. Maybe you should have a lot of paper handy before you attempt your ';proof.';

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