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| From | Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> |
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| Newsgroups | sci.math |
| Subject | Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise |
| Date | 2018-05-17 18:32 +0000 |
| Organization | muc.de e.V. |
| Message-ID | <pdkhsm$2lpe$2@news.muc.de> (permalink) |
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David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> the finest product of mathematical genius" and "the most admirable >> blossom of mathematical spirit" aren't different things in practice, >> or in the real world. > This might make things clearer. No, your attempted derailling of the discussion is mere sophistry. > It is well know that Kurt Godel "proved" the existence of God. The > "proof" had the axiom-definition-theorem-proof format. So it was "in > the spirit of" mathematics. Rubbish. It might have had the formalism of maths but certainly not its spirit. > But most mathematicians wouldn't accept the proof as a mathematical > proof, so we couldn't say it was a product of "mathematical genius". > Although we could say that it was a non-mathematical product of *a* > mathematical genius. > Even native speakers of English might not agree with me. It's very hard to agree with such an obscure, irrelevant diversion. By the way, do you understand proof by contradiction? You never clarified that point in the other discussion. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-12 13:26 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-12 20:24 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-13 14:59 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-13 20:22 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@hs-augsburg.de> - 2018-05-14 00:54 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-14 19:17 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-14 21:00 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2018-05-15 06:57 +0000
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@hs-augsburg.de> - 2018-05-15 06:04 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2018-05-15 19:41 +0000
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-15 19:54 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise Python <python@python.invalid> - 2018-05-16 03:04 +0200
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-16 17:53 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2018-05-16 20:44 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2018-05-17 18:32 +0000
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-18 21:56 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> - 2018-05-20 18:54 +0000
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 12:13 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-05-20 14:15 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-05-20 14:21 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-05-20 14:26 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise FredJeffries <fredjeffries@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 08:47 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-15 20:09 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-16 17:57 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-16 20:39 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise David Petry <davidlpetry@gmail.com> - 2018-05-16 20:02 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Shobe, Martin" <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-17 06:56 -0500
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 13:55 -0700
Re: Hiilbert and Cantor's paradise bursejan@gmail.com - 2018-05-12 18:50 -0700
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