Re: Mathematical Fiction


<lal_al@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Among the many interesting ideas in this book ("Infinity and the
> Mind"), is the proof that the infinity which is the number of integers
> is a smaller infinity than the infinity which is the number of reals.
> There are many different infinities, and not just one infinity.

In fact, given any infinite number X, there are more than X different
infinities. There is also no biggest infinity (though there is a smallest
one: the number of integers.)


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