I have just discovered (during homeschooling) that my children are being taught at school that infinitely many numbers exist. Where do I have to send my petitions against this devastating creationist pre-Hilbertian falsehood?
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As long as nonconstructable mathematical entities are consistent and useful, why not consider them to exist?
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Because this assumption leads to contradictions. If you understand mathematics as a universal Platonic code library, it means that you introduce critical and unfixable bugs into the kernel.
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I can totally see a 3rd grader grasping this. +1 for homeschooling
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I told them that there is no limit to the places that they can visit, and if they find the end of the known world, they can take one more step, unless there is a wall, so there may be no limit but the number of steps they can take. But it does not follow that infinity exists.
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Dark Integers is about this if I’m remembering right and I really liked it.
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What do you mean by „constructed“?
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