Re: Zenkin's paper on Cantor (reply of Dr. Zenkin)

From: Eray Ozkural exa (examachine_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/09/04


Date: 8 Nov 2004 17:15:09 -0800

Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@DTO.TUDelft.NL> wrote in message news:<cm7ucl$cia$1@news.tudelft.nl>...
> Chas Brown wrote:
> [ ... most of excellent writeup deleted ... ]
> > Mathematicians who found the implications of Cantor's approach
> > distasteful to their intuitions did not cease doing math. They
> > eliminated those axioms and forms of logic which they found did not
> > correspond to their intuitions, but they still did what mathematicians
> > do - they investigated the logical consequences of their favorite
> > assumptions.
>
> Affirmative!
>
> An example of such a mathematician is L.E.J. Brouwer, the founder
> of intuitionism.
>
> > In any case, to accept that the axiom of infinity [ .. ]
>
> I've been searching for the complete axioms of ZFC on the web, but
> encountered (somewhat) contradictory results. Would you be so kind
> to direct me to a site - if it exists - where I can find a flawless
> exposition of these axioms? Thanx if you do :-)

The wikipedia page wasn't really bad, but have to look. What do you
think is contradictory?

Cheers,

--
Eray Ozkural


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