On the contrary, proving 1+1=2 was a massive leap forward in our understanding mathematics as a concept. It also happened in 1910 after we had been just accepting it for thousands of years, and if you reject Russell's axioms it falls apart.
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The question of what it means for a number, a fundamentally abstract and imaginary concept, to represent some quantity in the real physical world is a BIG QUESTION It's an IMPORTANT question, it's a FOUNDATIONAL question if you want to have a practical understanding of math
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Maybe he will understand it better if we discuss geometry. What's a point ? A line ? A plane ? They aren't physical entities. Just like numbers, they are an abstraction that let us approximate nature, but nature will always be an imperfect example of ithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%E2%80%93line%E2%80%93plane_postulate …
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