Conversations with David Berlinski: What Is a Number?
On an episode of ID the Future, mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski talks with Casey Luskin about the nature of numbers and mathematics.
What exactly is a number, and does mathematics exist beyond the human mind? Berlinski and Luskin discuss how what we know about math comports with modern science.
Image: Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA, by Joe Mabel [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.