2020-09-26

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感觉下面这段话写的好好啊，关于数学定义的，特别general

 

So mathematics in general is broken up into many fields of study, such as geometry, topology, linear algebra, etc. Each field is essentially defined by the mathematical objects under study. In linear algebra, the mathematical objects of interest are vector spaces. In topology, the mathematical objects are topological spaces. And since set theory is taken as a foundation of mathematics, all these mathematical objects are simply sets (collections of abstract things) with specific rules about what form the sets must be in and how they can be transformed or operated on.

所以数学一般被分成许多领域来研究，比如几何学、拓扑学、线性代数等等。每一个领域的核心都是一个研究一个人为定义的的数学对象。比如在线性代数，这个数学对象是向量空间；在拓扑学，这个对象是拓扑空间。所以集合论被认为是数学的基础，因为所有这些数学对象都是有特定规则的某种集合（全是抽象概念的一个“集合”），这些规则规定了集合的形式以及他们可以进行怎么样的变形或者被进行说明操作。