Re: Non-atomistic continuum: Peirce, Weyl, and?

guenther.vonKnakspott_at_gmx.de
Date: 12/14/04 

Date: 14 Dec 2004 15:53:52 -0800

Eckard Blumschein wrote:
> While traditional analysis considers the continuum as the set of its
> points, Peirce wrote:"A continuum is precisely that every part of
which
> has parts", and Weyl explained in 'On the New Foundational Crisis
of
> Mathematics' in 1921 that the concept of a continuous manifold
remained
> mathematically sterile.
>
> At least within IR+, cosine integral transform translates any
discrete
> number into a non-atomistic continuous function and vice versa. May I
> ask for some elucidating hints?
>
> Eckard Blumschein

Oh, show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why
Show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why, oh, don't ask why

For if we don't find the next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die
That's some more Weill for you Blumschein.

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