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Philosophy: from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom"
Thesis: One is not just a number, it is the unit of mathematics
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Antithesis: Zero is, in fact the unit of mathematics. Example: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc....
Disclaimer: Honestly this is just a strong opinion of mine, however I do believe that this mindset is better for counting.
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Yeah. Zero is also cool. Took till around 1200 to bring this concept to Europe when Pi e.g. already was widely know for most parts.
But look at the cover of this one: https://www.binomi.de/Formeln-Hilfen-Hoehere-Mathematik .
It strongly supports my thesis. Because it is very easy to put zero into any equation / relation (just add / substract it arbitrarily often: what changes ?).
But its quite hard to do it with one while keeping the "genius" level of the equation.
And then there is this beautiful thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_unity . Partitioning zero in this "sense" just seems quite superfluous.
Btw: Zero gives no error by itself when you divide by it. It is defined to be not defined in a classical field (Q,R or C).
If you allow "division" by zero (in the widest possible sense) you either get some kind of null-null-divisor free ring or when you are defining to allow division by zero to be "allowed" in a "classical" field then the field becomes very trivial . :)
And since you always can express zero in other ways (namely as some arbitrary linear combination with one and or the other units of the field (e.g. sqrt(-1) in the complex plane)) but you can't pull of this trick with one,
i still stand to my thesis.
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