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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings

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Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.

Contents Top Everyone Has to Have Numbers... Don't They? What Underlies the Idea of Numbers? What the Universe Is Like Is All Computational Reducibility Numerical? But Do We Have to Use Numbers? The Computational Future Are Numbers Even Inevitable in Mathematics? So, Are Numbers Inevitable? How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers? How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers? May 25, 2021 Based on a talk at Numerous Numerosity: An interdisciplinary meeting on the notions of cardinality, ordinality and arithmetic across the sciences . Everyone Has to Have Numbers… Don’t They? The alien

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