Are you sure that 1 1=2 ?

Question

Don't you think that all of us have been fed up for our whole life with concept of 1 1=2 without having necessity to reason and prove it ?

Do you think the man who first established it as a 'scientific' person, or more as a man with great influence

Answer 1

It's just a mathematical expression. Like, that same guy may have said one plus one equals two ones or one plus one equals one and one, it's the same thing. They were probably someone of influence...

Answer 2

no think about it

its just a word one or two it could be like saying

cat plus book is bottle then we could draw little pictures

i really think its just human creativity

Answer 3

I like to think in another reality or world, 1+1 = 3 or 4 or 5 or nothing or cake. I think that it's our belief in the beginning of human existence led us to all that we now believe and thus perceive. It's like throwing a little pebble into a pond. That little pebble starts a ripple, and that ripple effects something else in the pond, and so on, and so on. Cause and effect. Beginning beliefs are also like those ripples. Everything that you experience has it's beginning somewhere right? Even if it's a billion years ago.

Answer 4

...no plus sign incorrect sum...

Answer 5

my algebra 2 teacher actually proved that 1+1 does not equal two

needless to say she had no life:)

Answer 6

I can convince myself, so far, that one + one = one. under certain circumstances.

Answer 7

You are confusing mathematics with science.  Math uses a priori reasoning while science uses a posteriori reasoning with testable hypotheses.

Try to keep the two separate in your mind.

Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell convincingly demonstrated that 1+1 = 2 in their work "Principia Mathematica" published in the early years of the 20th century.

You are only 100 years late on your education.

Answer 8

The laws of physics and the nuclear table of mater is the same all over our 16 billion years universe

Answer 9

yes I am sure

What else would 1+1 be?

the number "2" is just represents the concept of two "1s" being added together.  If you want to call the number "5" instead, then that is fine but "5" would still have to represent two "1s"

I dont know how to explain that without using numbers I guess

Math is one of the few fields where we actually can prove things

Answer 10

looks like 11 is 11