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 | | The familiar successor operation, S(n) = n + 1, n = 0, 1, 2,..., n = 0, 1, 2,..., which generates Natural numbers, for example, S(S(S(S(S(S(S(0))))))) = 7, is implicitly the "begat operation", B(n) = n + 1, wherein the nth generation begats the n + 1 generation, beginning with Adam as n = 0. |
 | | In the 19th century when the great Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton created the concept and name of vector and generated complex numbers as vectors (ordered pairs) from the real numbers'. |
 | | At one of the early international meetings of mathematicians, Henri Poincaré said, "Mathematics has been arithmetized." (Carl Boyer devotes Ch. |
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