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In starting the study of any sort of mathematics, we cannot prove everything. Every time that we introduce a new concept, we must define it in terms of a concept whose meaning is already known to us, and it is impossible to keep going backwards defining forever. Thus we must choose our starting place, what we assume to be known, and what we are willing to explain and prove in terms of these assumptions.
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Lang, S. (2002). Numbers and Functions. In: Short Calculus. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0077-9_1
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