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We all "understand" what the number 1 is. Right? How do you really explain what that is to a smart person that has never heard of it?

There is a mathematical way of doing it, through set theory. Discuss a little how that goes, how you define addition, and so on.

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Ph.D. on Applied Mathematics in Aug 2007. Involved on applications of image super-resolution to electron microscopy

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