Comment on Why tensors? A beginner's perspectiveparentComments−chobytes4yI think a lot of circularity occurs in mathematics because we don't typically qualify our utterances when it can be implicitly understood.Eg "Numbers (formal) are those objects which behave like numbers (informal)."−dboreham4yBertrand Russell turns over in grave.
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I think a lot of circularity occurs in mathematics because we don't typically qualify our utterances when it can be implicitly understood.
Eg "Numbers (formal) are those objects which behave like numbers (informal)."
Bertrand Russell turns over in grave.