To me, it seems no number is the work of God, they are all concepts of the mind.
However, it seems negative numbers are more artificial than the rest of the numbers out there. So why did he describe them as part of god's work?
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Because at the time when Kronecker said this, there was no more basic theory in terms of which integers could be defined. Nowadays we have such a theory; it is called set theory. – Alexandre Eremenko Mar 08 '24 at 13:21