Showing posts with label natural number. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural number. Show all posts
Sunday, May 25, 2014

How many grains of sand?

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Recently one of my friends used "all the grains of sand" as an example of an infinite set "because it is impossible to count ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

What is mathematics to animals?

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In a playfully serious volume of verses by Eugene Ostashevsky we meet his alter ego, the "new philosopher" DJ Spinoza.  With the...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Natural numbers

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     My just-previous posting tells of a Monday poetry reading I was able to attend.  On Monday, May 14, a poetry reading took place that ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Self-portrait with numbers

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Visual poet Geof Huth   lives and blogs in Schenectady, NY.  In 2010 he turned 50 and early in 2011 he sent me (via snail mail, on smooth wh...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A Lemma by Constance Reid

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Constance Reid (1918-2010), died on October 14.  Sister of a mathematician (Julia Robinson), Reid wrote first about life in World War II fa...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Is mathematics discovered -- or invented?

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The issue of whether mathematics is invented or discovered is posed often.  Less frequently, queries as to where poetry falls in these cate...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Reflections on the Transfinite

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      Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, first dared to think the counter-intuitive notion that not all infinite sets have t...