Real fish, real numbers, real jobs | Real numbers and limits Math Foundations 118 | N J Wildberger

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• JA

  @Jay-Raff · 5 years ago (edited)

  I know a man by the name of Rertrand Bussel who posited an interesting question for modern biology: can you have a Toaster Fish which toastes every toaster fish without it getting toasted itself?

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• EV

  @evanm2024 · 11 years ago

  Fifteen minutes to set up a groanworthy "real numbers are fishy" pun. I love mathematicians' humour.

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• RO

  @rodolforesende2048 · 2 months ago

  Wildberger's work is best viewed as an alternative foundation or research program, not as a demonstrated replacement for classical mathematics. No comparable body of results has been produced that matches the breadth and power of mathematics built on the real numbers.

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• BE

  @bernardoxbm · 11 years ago

  R is dead. R remains dead. And we have killed it.

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• AG

  @AgiotaComunista · 11 years ago

  I'm still skeptical. However, all of these videos motivated me to get books and articles on the Real numbers. Thanks for the videos.

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• BR

  @brendanward2991 · 9 years ago

  Mathematics must be founded in the real world. If nothing existed, there would be nothing to count, and counting things is surely the beginning of mathematics.

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• LA

  @LawsonEnglish · 11 years ago

  You should have had a picture of a roaring fireplace behind you...

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• ST

  @StijnOomes · 11 years ago

  That was amusing. Thanks!<br><br>There is an interesting group of researchers in the history and foundations of science and mathematics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands (where I got my MSc in physics). You may find more open minds there then in the mathematics community proper.

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• JA

  @jaanuskiipli4647 · 9 years ago

  Good article, I t brought me back memories when I first encountered number Pi in school, and how I was a bit uncomfortable with this strange object in the midst of familiar decimals, it became a strange burden you had to carry around in the calculations, but eventually I got used to it.

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• BU

  @BuckGrognard · 11 years ago

  <i>Thoroughly</i> enjoyed being subjected to hearing you read your paper, njwildberger. &nbsp;It&apos;s one thing for some mathematics to be quite abstract. &nbsp;It is wholly another to be completely made up and undefined.

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• PI

  @pieinth3sky · 11 years ago

  Times change.<br>Nowadays most people would prefer dirt cheap global video calls, internet banking and self-driving cars to Cantor&apos;s paradise.

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• TE

  @te1978b · 11 years ago

  You should make a christmas themed version of this reading. Since it&apos;s more light hearted it would be fitting and I think the fans would appreciate the joke. No change to the reading, just a santa outfit (or just the hat) and a perhaps a boom box with some jingle bells or something... and just in case you think i&apos;m trolling - i&apos;m not a member of your party but I am a fan and truely appreciate the videos.

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