@themattsimpson @St_Rev I’d need some explanation for how this is an advance, before doing more than a quick skim.
@themattsimpson @St_Rev Finitism was one response to the foundational crisis in math a century ago, but that is generally considered over.
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@St_Rev Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics#Foundational_crisis … -
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@St_Rev google prompted by that led to http://arxiv.org/html/nlin/0004007 … by Chaitin, who independently invented Kolmogoroff randomness
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@Meaningness @themattsimpson Actually-examined-infinities in mathematics are an accounting trick. People get hung up on semantics & go mad. -
@Meaningness @themattsimpson Opening of that paper seemed like a textbook casse.
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