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Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order?

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116 points baruchel | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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revskill ◴[24 Jun 25 07:09 UTC] No.44363585[source]▶
We need a word-less world of math where all meaning is derived from figures. WOrds are confusing.

"If you can't describe the meaning using only pencils and compass, you don't mean it"

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novaRom ◴[24 Jun 25 07:19 UTC] No.44363632[source]▶
And especially when we mix different categories. Like saying about any infinity as about an object is misleading, because it's rather a process
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1. kbrkbr ◴[24 Jun 25 10:22 UTC] No.44364602[source]▶
I can think of N as a process in a sense, because I can keep adding a number. But I can't think of R as a process like this, specifically because there is no surjective mapping from N to R.

How would you think of R as a process?