@sarahdoingthing Numerology is a wonderland of pareidolia. Geometry has tendencies in that direction.
@St_Rev because in fact you can’t get real numbers without actual infinities (Dedekind cuts or Cauchy sequences) and those were triggers
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@St_Rev Apparently constructivists tried to find ways to do analysis without any hidden actual infinities, but it was an abject failure. -
@St_Rev So basically somewhere around 1960, everyone agreed just not to deal with the foundational crisis anymore and to get on with > - 11 more replies
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@Meaningness hm, maybe.@benedict and @nervemeter mentioned a Spanish mathematician who was working on alternate concepts of continuity... -
@Meaningness Never did follow up on it. But it does seem to me that the actual Spooky Thing is continuity, and it's *weird*... - 1 more reply
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