Introduction

David doch has some really unique views when it comes to the nature of mathematics, and it connects directly to his work on quantum computation. David recently gave a talk at his dira prize medal award ceremony in which he articulated one o the most profound differences that david, as a philosopher, has with the mathematicians. So this is part two of chapter five of the beginning of infinity, the reality of abstractions. It might better be called an appendicy because there's not much left for me to read of chapter five. But there are certain themes that are touched upon in the fabric of reality that don't quite get a voice in the beginning of Infinity. And i suppose in part,