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The Reality of Numbers is a book by John Bigelow that challenges the myth that mathematical objects can be defined into existence. Bigelow uses Armstrong's metaphysical materialism to cast new light on mathematics and identifies natural, real, and imaginary numbers and sets with specified physical properties and relations. This allows mathematics to be drawn back from its sterile, abstract exile into the midst of the physical world.
Challenging the myth that mathematical objects can be defined into existence, Bigelow here employs Armstrong's metaphysical materialism to cast new light on mathematics. He identifies natural, real, and imaginary numbers and sets with specified physical properties and relations and, by so doing, draws mathematics back from its sterile, abstract exile into the midst of the physical world.
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