Difference between revisions of "Talk:Infinity"

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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)

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 ::I'm not qualified to judge which it is, but it's been dealt with now. [[User:RDre|RDre]] 14:19, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
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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]
+:We better start over. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 14:50, 11 April 2007 (EDT)