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Re: fom - 01 - preface
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Jan 3, 2013 1:23 PM
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WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> writes:
> On 24 Dez., 23:47, Alan Smaill <sma...@SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> "Indeed, in his discussion containing his >> he essentially remarks in passing that every linear number is bounded >> above by a real number." > > Cantor's notion of linearity is this:
This is different from the previous definition you gave us .... time for smoke and mirrors?
> Sie erwähnen in Ihrem Schreiben die Frage über die aktual unendlich > kleinen Größen. An mehreren Stellen meiner Arbeit werden Sie die
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> Zermelo, the editor of Cantor's work, has not detected any attempt by > Cantor to cheat.
Of course not; Cantor made efforts to clarify his proofs.
> Zermelo notes that Cantor's proof is invalid, he does > not note, however, that multiplying linear magnitudes in Cantor's > sense would be erroneous or a blatant fraud. That insight has been > published by you for the first time (and for the last time too, I > think).
It is just so weird that you regard the mirror image of your own strategy as "fraudulent". It is not.
> Regards, WM
-- Alan Smaill
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