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:*In the early 1600's Galileo began to show signs of a modern attitude toward the infinite, when he proposed that "infinity should obey a different arithmetic than finite numbers." But it was not until the late 19th century that Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, finally put infinity on a firm logical foundation and described a way to do arithmetic with infinite quantities useful to mathematics. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/infinity.html] | :*In the early 1600's Galileo began to show signs of a modern attitude toward the infinite, when he proposed that "infinity should obey a different arithmetic than finite numbers." But it was not until the late 19th century that Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, finally put infinity on a firm logical foundation and described a way to do arithmetic with infinite quantities useful to mathematics. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/infinity.html] | ||
:We better start over. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 14:50, 11 April 2007 (EDT) | :We better start over. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 14:50, 11 April 2007 (EDT) | ||
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| + | ::It wasn't that bad. Infinity is not a number, but it ''is'' greater than any real number. [[User:Tsumetai|Tsumetai]] 14:52, 11 April 2007 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 18:52, April 11, 2007
This article refers to infinity as both being a number, and not being a number. Clarify. RDre 14:12, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
- Can you fix it? --Ed Poor 14:13, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
- I'm not qualified to judge which it is, but it's been dealt with now. RDre 14:19, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
- Good start, but ...
- In the early 1600's Galileo began to show signs of a modern attitude toward the infinite, when he proposed that "infinity should obey a different arithmetic than finite numbers." But it was not until the late 19th century that Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, finally put infinity on a firm logical foundation and described a way to do arithmetic with infinite quantities useful to mathematics. [1]
- We better start over. --Ed Poor 14:50, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
- It wasn't that bad. Infinity is not a number, but it is greater than any real number. Tsumetai 14:52, 11 April 2007 (EDT)