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 ross.finlayson@gmail.com Posts: 835 Registered: 2/15/09
Re: Cantor's first proof in DETAILS
Posted: Dec 4, 2012 11:46 AM
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On Dec 4, 1:24 am, "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlay...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Dec 3, 10:47 pm, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote:
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> > In article
> > <dac80fce-8253-4320-aa88-4ce8ebe40...@b4g2000pby.googlegroups.com>,
> >  "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlay...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> > > Yes, Dirac's delta as it is:  is extra the standard, encompassing it,
> > > AND beyond it.  (And of course it's rigorously modeled by standard
> > > real functions and relevant to the pure AND applied in mathematics.)

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> > If that were really the case, Ross should be able to give a real value
> > of the Dirac delta for any real argument, such as its value at zero.

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> > Can you do that, Ross?
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> > > And Heaviside's step simply has each value between [-1,1] in y on the
> > > vertical line through the origin.

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> > Graphs of real functions in the xy-plane do not have any more than one
> > point on any vertical line, so anything like Heaviside's step which
> > does, cannot be a real function.

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> > > And EF goes to one.  So though none of the _finite_ naturals have that
> > > n/d > eps, for each positive eps < 1 there is an element of the range
> > > y thus that y > eps, or y -/-> 1, as it does:  y = EF(n) -> 1.  So, as
> > > is typical, you didn't complete the statement.

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> > Ross claims that there are a sequence of constant functions EF_n(x), 1
> > for for each n in |N, with domain {1...n} and constant value 1/n.
> > So far so good.
> > But now he also claims a constant function, EF(x), with Domain |N , with
> > EF(m) = EF(N) for all m and n in |N  and such that the sum
> > Sigma_( n in |N) EF(n) = 1.

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> > Those what are more familiar with standard number systems that Ross
> > appears to be will easily see that this cannot be true in those standard
> > systems

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> > >  Would you have that
> > > lim Sum 1/2^n < 2, n e N?  0 e N

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> > Irrelevant. Ross has to produce a STANDARD real number, x, such that
> > Sum_(n= 1...oo) x = 1.

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> > Note that for every natural number n, 1/10^n is too large to be that x,
> > and lim_(n -> oo) 1/10^n = 0, so Ross' alleged x cannot be any larger
> > than 0, and any number of zeroes, even infinitely many, still adds up to
> > only 0.

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> > At least in standard mathematics.
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> > But possibly Ross is emulating WM by creating a private world of his own
> > where he can command impossibilities.

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> > :  lim Sum_n=0^\infty 1/2^n = 2.  It's
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> > > not that there's no smallest n that it is, it's that there's no
> > > largest n that it can't be.

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> > > So, it is false for you to (m)utter that d/d =/= 1, or that your false
> > > challenge applies to any.

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> > Your EF function, Ross, would require a real number to exist which is
> > larger than zero but smaller than every positive real number.

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> > In any standard model of the reals, such numbers do not exist, so that
> > before Ross can use his EF for anything, he will have to invent a wols
> > new number system in which it can operate witout contradiction.

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> > >  It's not a failure to note that your
> > > "challenge" is to confirm a falsehood, nor is it much of a challenge.

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> > But it is a lie to note any such thing, since the only falsehood
> > involved is Ross' claim that his EF limit function is compatible with e
> > standard real numbers.

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> > If EF were actual, why can't Ross give a decimal or fractional value for
> > EF(1)?

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> > > It's not that there's no smallest n that it is, it's that there's no
> > > largest n that it can't be.

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> > > There are only, and everywhere, elements of the "real" continuum, as
> > > we well know them as real numbers, between zero and one, and so are
> > > those from infinity back to infinity fore, for some including
> > > infinity, and for none including transfinite cardinals nor your
> > > imaginary numbers (which are elements of the Argand plane and in
> > > extension to the hypercomplex).

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> > But there is no number between zero and every positive real, which
> > number is what the value of Ross' EF function would have to be if it
> > were to exist.

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> > > No, it is our rules, of the reals.
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> > Your rules are not the rules of the real reals, only of your imaginary
> > ones.

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> > .  And, those are discoveries, not
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> > > inventions, for the real, to the concrete, in mathematics, with
> > > rigor.  We are simply curators, not owners, of these eternal truths.

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> > Then Ross should be fired for incompetence as he sickens then not cures
> > them.

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> > > And, application already has and uses the projectively extended real
> > > numbers, in mathematics, for, for example, physics.

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> > Citations?
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> > Recall that Ross claims his EF function, the limit one, has the
> > properties
> > (1) that for all naturals n and m, EF(m) = EF(n), and simultaneosly
> > (2) SUM_(N in |N) EF(n) = 1

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> > Now if, for some n, EF(n) > 0, the there is some m in |N such that
> > EF(n) > 1/m. but then SUM_(n = 1..m+1) EF(n) >1,

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> > Thus EM(n) = 0 for all n and any sum of EM()s is still 0.
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> > The mathematics of the standard set |N and the standard ordered field of
> > reals, |R,  are incompatible with existence of Ross' alleged EF function.
> > --

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> They say if you don't open your mouth you can't say something stupid,
> but, they say that.
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> Heh, got your goat, there, eh, Hancher.  Huff and puff, you.  Quit
> with your ad hominem attacks.
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> You ignoramus, I just noted Dirac's delta is not-a-real-function.  Or,
> that's _not_ really the case.  And Heaviside's step is continuous,
> now.  For that matter it's a real function.
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> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RealFunction.html
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> You're slippin'.  I think you mean Heaviside's step isn't a C^\infty
> or smooth function, it's not even C^1.  Though of course there was a
> time when step wasn't "modernly" a function:  when all functions were
> C^\infty:  hundreds of years ago.  You're slippin', backward, and quit
> dragging us with you.
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> Then, no, I've never claimed that EF(1) has a standard value as
> Eudoxus/Cauchy/Dedekind, an element of the complete ordered field can
> be halved, again and again ad infinitum.  However, it is the
> properties of the function and its range that are relevant, in the
> standard, and to the standard.  So, the construction is modeled with
> real functions, and obviously all the elements of the range are in the
> reals, and they go from zero to one.  Of course, I went further than
> that and describe the real numbers as at once complete ordered field
> and partially ordered ring with rather restricted transfer principle.
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> And, m > n implies EF(m) > EF(n), because here m > n.  It is true,
> that.  The functions there modeling it are all constant monotone
> increasing, and they all go to one.
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> Do you or do you not have that lim Sum 1/2^n = 2?  Because as above
> you would have just proved that false, were you not wrong.
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> Quit trying to segregate me you bastard, that's a typical fallacious
> argument which we're all quite familiar with from you.  And don't
> change the discussion subject to simple derogation.  This is about
> "Cantor's first proof in DETAILS" not your latest slander.  And, it's
> about Finlayson's proofs in detail, who is me.
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> Yeah, I do have a new theory that includes the standard:   I have "A
> Theory", that includes the standard.  Bring your A game.  Yeah I
> already discovered a new system:  same as the old system, and then
> some.
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> I don't expect you're familiar with Riemann, Lobachevsky, Connes, etc
> geometry or the meromorphological (I'm not very well either), in plain
> old pure mathematics and their applications, though of course some
> erudite readers are.  They're in letters. (Here, Physics Letters.)
> Then, for nilpotent infinitesimals, Leibniz invented methods of the
> integral calculus, and we still use today the "d" for differential and
> integral S for summation, of raw differentials, cited in _every_
> calculus text as the mode and universal notation.  Of course, our
> rigorous development of the fundamental theorems of calculus, Cauchy/
> Weierstrass, and etcetera, keep people from going overboard, but
> moreso develop and maintain the general curriculum for application.
> Leibniz' notation survives, and it speaks most directly to our
> mathematical intuition.
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> The standard naturals and reals are insufficient for all that EF
> entails, while it's quite perfectly modeled in them:  standardly.
> And, Goedel proves there is more to the standard than the standard.
> Of course, it would be fallacious to claim that because Goedel proves
> there are true statements about the elements of discourse extra the
> standard that these are thus true:  instead, it is defined:
> constructively.  Goedel accommodates that.
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One fix: there is a smallest n e N s.t. 2 - Sum 1/2^n < eps for each
eps > 0. So, it wouldn't be proven false that lim Sum 1/2^n = 2
regardless. Here eps is from the complete ordered field or simply
enough R in the context.

Yes, that's all, thank you.

Then, the universe: that's everything, isn't it?

Thanks,

Ross Finlayson

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