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Quotes from Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science — Hermann Weyl

1885–1955 Germany

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The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose only practical vindication is the special calculatory manageability of the ordinary number continuum with its four basic operations. The topological skeleton determines the connectivity of the manifold in the large.

Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science (1949)

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