Thread: What good is math?
View Single Post
  #236 (permalink)  
Old 03-July-2009, 10:48 PM
nauthiz nauthiz is offline
Established Member
  
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 1,830
Send a message via AIM to nauthiz
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
Also: Does counting count as mathematics
I'd go so far as to say it's the very beginning of mathematics.

1. 0 is a natural number.
2. For every natural number x, S(x) is a natural number.