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MARY JANE’S INTUITIONS ABOUT MATHEMATICS.

February 8, 2014 · Science

MARY JANE’S INTUITIONS ABOUT MATHEMATICS. When I posted earlier on Tegmark’s theories, Mary Jane commented here that her sister Carol had once said to her “I don’t even know what math is!” And Mary Jane had replied to Carol, “It’s the study of relationships.” I was pleased to find this quote from Tegmark: “To a modern logician, a mathematical structure is precisely this: a set of abstract entities with relations between them.”