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Ep 203: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 10 ”The Nature of Mathematics” Part 4

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The Nature of Mathematics and the Irrationality of the Square Root of Two

Discussion on the nature of mathematics and how a proof demonstrates the irrationality of the square root of two by reaching a contradiction to the assumption that it can be written as a rational number.

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