Re: Cantor Confusion

In article <1165761763.908889.34550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

stephen@xxxxxxxxxx schreef:


You are the one who is trying to restrict peoples' freedoms. You
cannot name a single piece of mathematics that is "forbidden"
by set theory.

Oh yes, I can:

Let P(a) be the probability that an arbitrary natural is divisible by
a fixed natural a. Then P(a) = 1/a . Forbidden by set theory.

HdB is again wrong. It is not forbidden by set theory itself but by the
standard definition of probability within probability theory.


http://groups.google.nl/group/sci.math/msg/b686cb8d04d44962

You on the other hand want to abolish any mathematics
that involves infinity, which is a severe restriction on others
freedom of thinking. In short, you are a hypocrite.

No. I am a truth seeker, against all odds.

HdB has certainly stacked the odds against his ever finding truth, at
least re mathematics.

I would imagine your understanding of Object Oriented Programming
is as woefully garbled as you understanding of set theory.

I've done quite some of it for a living. And I'm still alive and well.

Not enough of it to have noticed that it is not a part of mathematics,
apparently.

Han de Bruijn
.

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