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Good points, a large chunk of math is different formalizations of the notion of size, for example (in order of increasing absurdity): https://en.wikipedia.org/
by sleepyams 3y ago
Good points, a large chunk of math is different formalizations of the notion of size, for example (in order of increasing absurdity):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_(mathematics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafilter_(set_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafilter_(set_theory)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/02/metric_spaces.html https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/02/metric_spaces.h...
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/10/euler_characteristic_of_a_cate.html https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/10/euler_character...
(and of course there are certainly many that I'm missing)
For more fun, see these slides from John Baez: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/counting/counting.pdf https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/counting/counting.pdf