4 ideas
14248 | We could accept the integers as primitive, then use sets to construct the rest [Cohen] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
651 | Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |