Re: An uncountable countable set

Mike Kelly wrote:

Han de Bruijn wrote:

Mike Kelly wrote:

Han de Bruijn wrote:

Quote [ Randy Poe ] : Physicists also

realize that things can exist in mathematics that aren't even
approximations of a physical realizable. That aren't physically
sensible in other words.

That's only true for non-disciplinary mathematics.

What is non-disciplinary mathematics? Is it not mathematics?

It is mathematics without the discipline.

[ ... First guess snipped ... ]

Second guess was "mathematics that is not liked by Han".

Not liked by Carl Friedrich Gauss as well. I'm in fairly good company.

Han de Bruijn

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