On: Why Discrete Math Is Important

[glockenspielen]

Head down the Prof Wildberger rabbit hole if you'd like to explore why we might be able to cast aside chunks of conventional math including real numbers and infinite sets. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCXl0Zbk8_rvjyLwAR-Xh9pQ https://njwildberger.com

[tw1010 → glockenspielen]

I would be careful taking that stuff too seriously. It's ok as entertainment though.

[fjsolwmv → glockenspielen]

Might be? Of course we can. Obviously infinite objects are irrelevant to modeling the real world. They are just a shorthand for adding a bunch of annoying qualifiers to every mathematical statement.

[geezerjay → fjsolwmv]

> Obviously infinite objects are irrelevant to modeling the real world.

I disagree. The concept of infinite objects are essentially object sets with an unknown limit. This represents a general case from which we can draw important concepts.

[yters → fjsolwmv]

It's a good thing we don't actually need the square root of two!