Re: Help in answering news story on refutation of fermat's last theorem

Stephen J. Herschkorn wrote:
> I stopped reading the Manilla Times article when I got to this
> statement.
>> He undertook a thorough critique-rectification of these fields and
>> found, among others, that the real number system in basic algebra,
>> the foundation of mathematics, is defective. Specifically, two of its
>> axioms (the trichotomy and completeness axioms, for those who took
>> basic algebra in high school and college) are false.

I wonder what he thinks it means for an axiom to be "false". Axioms can be
inconsistent, but how can they be false?

--Mark


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