Comment by anon291
6 hours ago
I mean people need to be familiar with mathematics. In mathematics things form things without having to understand them.
For example, The natural numbers form a ring and field over normal addition and multiplication , but you don't need to know ring theory to add numbers..
People need to stop worrying about not understanding things. No one understands everything.
I get your point, but the natural numbers do not form a ring or field.
Now imagine if every single explanation of natural numbers talked about rings and fields. Nobody ever just says "they're the counting numbers starting from one." A few of them might say, "they're the counting numbers starting from one, and they form a ring and field over addition and multiplication." And I might think, I understand the first part, but I'm not sure what the second part is and it sounds important, so maybe I still don't know what natural numbers are.
I'm not worried, but it's amusing to see this person say it's so simple, and then immediately trample on it.