FRUSTRATION (was: Re: Infinities)
Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:30:01 +0000
At 07:59 PM 11/18/97 -0500, Abraham Moses Genen wrote:
>My question is: Can anything be more absurd than the abstractions being
discussed in this string???
>
>AMG
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One thing is more absurd, sir - your continuing insistence on including
these bloody attachments, to wit, in this instance (now that I have
retrieved it from my hard disk, preparatory to zapping the damnable thing,
and going on to hunt down the rest of your little gifts):
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Abraham Moses
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>Damien Broderick writes
>: There's a century of
mathematics dealing with this topic [orders of
>: infinity]. I'm
entranced to find people starting again from scratch.
>: Next we could
have a heated debate about whether parallel lines meet.
:)
>
>Sure, why not. I hear that Marilyn Vos Savant says
the
recent proof
>of Fermat's Last Theorem is unsound because it relies on
nonEuclidean
>geometry.
>
>Now, which had less of an
excuse to
distrust hyperbolic geometry:
>Ms Vos Savant, or
C.L.Dodgson?
>
>(Dodgson rejected it because of ideal triangles -
figures with infinite
>perimeter, zero angles, and finite area -
which he
called absurd.)
>
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Dear
Fellow
Extropians:
As I
recall,
C.L Dodgson also wrote:
"Said
the Walrus to the Carpenter let's talk of other things,
Of
shoes and
ships and sealing wax, of Cabbages and Kings,
Of why
the
sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings, etc."
My
question
is: Can anything be more absurd than the abstractions being discussed in this
string???
AMG
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