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Letter "M" » Mathematics
«What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.»
Author: Georg Cantor
| About:
Infinity,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
ascending, ascends, assert, asserts, defined, definite, demonstrated, distinguishable, earlier, finite, Finite number, following, infinite number, modes, numbers, supra, unbounded, well-defined
«What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Life,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
arithmetic, horrors, scene
«Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Politics
| Keywords:
concern, divide, equation, Equations, mathematical, time like
«What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
algebra, cornered, exactly, three-cornered
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