Re: Circular Crackpot Identity

Prof. Gomes (profgomes@geocities.com)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:10:07


At 01:14 14/03/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>I don't see the word "identity" in the phrase "A=A", do you?
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>Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685
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Of course yes: Equality is also named, in mathematics, the Holliest of
Sacred Sciences { :-) }, "identity relation", the simplest example of
equivalence relations. Related to it, there is the transformation I ,
where I(x)=x ; I is named "identity transformation".

Gomes.