alleryWhich mathematician said 'God made the integers, all else is the work of man'?
ALeopold Kronecker
BGiuseppe Peano
CBertrand Russell
DHermann Grassmann
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Leopold Kronecker
1. The saying summarised Kronecker's belief about numbers.
2. He held that the whole counting numbers are given, and the rest is man-made.
3. Peano, Russell and Grassmann worked on definitions but are not credited with this line.
_Source: Wikipedia, Natural number, Formal construction_
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