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Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)

infinitelymore.xyz published 2024-11-10

I discuss several commonly held perspectives on the complex numbers and explore how their differences engage with several aspects of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics.

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