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1+1=2

Just about everything else follows from that.
 

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1+1=2

Just about everything else follows from that.
Actually, we have to define what addition is and be able to avoid the self referential paradoxes that Russell encountered in trying to establish a perfect foundation for all of mathematics...
 

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Probably something which we consider very simple such as arabic numerals.
 

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Actually, we have to define what addition is and be able to avoid the self referential paradoxes that Russell encountered in trying to establish a perfect foundation for all of mathematics...
Of course, though we had to originally base our mathematical systems on primitive economics, namely quantifying and trading, hence I would contend that 1+1=2 is probably the original gateway to mathematics by humans.
 

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Pythagoras Thm, without it cant solve cos^2(x)+sin^2(x)=1, hence no trig etc
 

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Real Analysis-> Complex Analysis -> Quantum Mechanics -> Age of Silicon -> Technologicall Revolution
 

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L'Hopital's rule. I came over this in first-year Calculus, and it blew my mind - I was like "I can't believe this actually works!".

Second would be Pythagoras theorem.
 

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Has to be the invention of 0 by the indian mathematician Aryabhata. Without it mathematics would be nothing. There would be no 'nothing in maths', 0 is the solution in which mathematics revolve. Calculus, Intergration, Differenciation, Polynomials, Measurement, Pyathagoras' Theorem, Applied Maths, Probablity, Graphs, Geometry, Matrices, Circle theorems, Indices, Consumer Arithmetic, Surds, Word Problems and etc. all come after this vital concept.
 

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