Re: Why is Cantor a target for cranks?


Timothy Murphy wrote:
david petry wrote:

Roughly speaking, if we restrict ourselves to identifiable objects,
then all sets are countable. In fact, the collection of all
identifiable mathematical objects is a countable set. We don't need
anything more for scientific and technological applications.

This seems fairly nonsensical to me.
Most "scientific and technological applications" require calculus,
which involves infinite sets.


The Cantorians have tried to attach their bells and whistles to
calculus, and now they claim that every time we use calculus, we are
ringing their bells.

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