The Tower of Mathematics
Mathematics as a tower, arithmetic up through calculus and fancy stuff, resting on bedrock assumptions that nobody has quite checked.
Transcript
[A tower: arithmetic, algebra, calculus, fancy stuff, built on "bedrock assumptions of all mathematics"] "Beautiful! Glorious! By the way, what's in the bedrock?" "Oh, something very sturdy, I'm sure!"
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-the-tower-of-mathematics/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)