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Traditional Catholic Faith => Anσnymσus Posts Allowed => Topic started by: Änσnymσus on April 09, 2018, 09:30:22 PM
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Please recommend a Foundations of Mathematics text that does not veer from Catholic sensibility, i.e. a volume which would not be out of place in the library of a man who believes in objective reality such as His Excellency Bishop Williamson. I ask because, unfortunately, even modern math texts aren't safe from postmodernist perversion. So, I want to read a text in which 2 and 2 are indeed still 4! :laugh1: And so on and so forth.
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It will depend on your background. Are you a scientist/ engineer or mathematician by training? Sometimes 2 + 2 = 1 (modular arithmetic).
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Perhaps the works I posted in my answer (https://hsm.stackexchange.com/a/6888/232) to the "Seeking sources: Catholic church and the development of mathematics" History of Science and Mathematics StackExchange question would help.
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It will depend on your background. Are you a scientist/ engineer or mathematician by training? Sometimes 2 + 2 = 1 (modular arithmetic).
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Sometimes the square root of a number can be negative one, but that's just an imaginary number, not a real one.
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Please recommend a Foundations of Mathematics text that does not veer from Catholic sensibility, i.e. a volume which would not be out of place in the library of a man who believes in objective reality such as His Excellency Bishop Williamson. I ask because, unfortunately, even modern math texts aren't safe from postmodernist perversion. So, I want to read a text in which 2 and 2 are indeed still 4! :laugh1: And so on and so forth.
I am not positive but I believe there is a match teacher at the SSPX chapel in Phoenix who has written his own which may interest you. I don't have his name but I am sure it is easily available through an inquiry to the chapel. Ourladyofsorrows.org
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It seems the OP is referring to this (@3:27):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWoWispv08s&index=1&list=PLC3BA0AE6E71DC07C&pbjreload=10