Re: Humanistic mathematics (Cantor's Theory)

Robert Kolker wrote:

> Han de Bruijn wrote:
>>
>> Nope. Mathematics is a bunch of idealizations from the real world (read:
>> physics). Some of these idealizations are good. Others are bad. With the
>> good ones, you can travel back and forth between the ideal world and the
>> real world. With the bad ones, you can't.

More totalitarianism from de Bruijn -- mathematicians must be slaves
to physicists :-( No doubt he is planning to send all "Cantorians"
to the fields for re-education once he seizes power :-(

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