In 1910 Russel and Whitehead published their revolutionary Principia Mathematica--in which they formalized the foundations of mathematics and laid the groundwork for modern science. In it, they take nearly three-hundred and sixty pages to rigorously prove one of the most crucial facts in all of history:

1 + 1 = 2

A observation they describe as "ocassionally useful."

This might seem like an incomprehensively difficult and, frankly, absurd task. But I think it would be far easier to write all two-thousand pages of Principia Mathematica than it would be to explain exactly why Final Fantasy Type-0 is a fucking travesty of a game.

After all, how exactly do you prove that "1 + 1 = 2?"

Reviewed on Jun 09, 2023


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