Manifestation of Infinity December 18, 2007
Posted by Alexandre Borovik in Uncategorized.trackback
According to Vladimir Arnold (see my previous post), these are manifestations of infinity in the real world:
A Dialogue on Infinity
between a mathematician and a philosopher
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Authors
dcorfield
Alexandre Borovik
David Pierce
[...] their scholastic practice. Among other subjects, e.g. this blog about Infinity which has the best definition of infinity I ever saw. [↩]This is not related to the eye. Helen Keller may have had better perception of [...]
off-topic :
Has there been a post on Boltzmann constant and statistics? There is some ( a lot?) of discussion in older literature relating it to infinity which i find very appealing.
No post on the Boltzmann constant. Could you give us some indication of this older literature?
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