Virgil
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Re: Endorsement of Wolfgang Mueckenheim from a non-mathematician
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Jan 30, 2013 3:35 AM
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In article <264ae927-99f6-45a4-9e52-48cf1ce3aed0@googlegroups.com>,
david petry <david_lawrence_petry@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 5:26:38 PM UTC-8, W. Dale Hall wrote:
> > david petry wrote:
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> > > Doron Zeilberger wrote the following in an opinion piece on his website:
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> > > "Read Wolfgang Mueckenheim's fascinating book ! I especially like the
> > > bottom
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> > > of page 112 and the top of page 113, that prove, once and for all,
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> > that (at least)
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> > > the actual infinity is pure nonsense."
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> > > http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion68.html
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> > > I'd be interested in seeing an English translation of the bottom of page
> > > 112 and the top of page 113.
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> > I suppose you missed the statement that immediately followed that:
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> > Clarification added Aug. 25, 2011: My endorsement of Wolfgang
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> > Mueckenheim's wonderful book is purely philosophical. I have no
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> > expertise, or interest, in checking any possible technical
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> > claims that he may have made.
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> Of course I did not miss that. Is that extremely important?
It means that the person being convinced by WM's argument is essentially
totally ignorant of both mathematics and logic, so has no idea of the
logical and mathematical consequences of assuming no actual
infiniteness.
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