Number and Reality: Sources of Scientific Knowledge

ScienceRise 23 (6):59-64 (2016)
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Abstract

Pythagoras’s number doctrine had a great effect on the development of science. Number – the key to the highest reality, and such approach allowed Pythagoras to transform mathematics from craft into science, which continues implementation of its project of “digitization of being”. Pythagoras's project underwent considerable transformation, but it only means that the plan in knowledge is often far from result

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Alex V. Halapsis
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