Re: Humanistic mathematics (Cantor's Theory)

From: Chris Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 15 Jun 2005 05:08:26 GMT

On 14 Jun 2005 14:35:25 -0700, david petry <david_lawrence_petry@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Chris Menzel wrote:
>
>> Quick question -- do you think the "underlying reality" of mathematics
>> includes the real numbers?
>
> Not quite. Real numbers are a very useful abstraction derived from
> the underlying reality of mathematics.

Yes, all uncountably many of them.
.

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