The fact that people get hung up on the truth or falsehood of set theoretic axioms like Choice or CH is a weird messy holdout of mathematical platonism and we should be taking Godel's completeness theorem more seriously. (No, not his incompleteness theorem. The other one)https://twitter.com/nex3/status/1199086783222255616 …
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I was existentially incapable of continuing with math until I could find out what a real number was, which my analysis teacher refused to tell me. After six months of clinical depression I found the answer in the library and life became livable again.
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