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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 02:17:36 +0100
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WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:

> On 20.05.2025 02:50, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
>
>>> I am one of the few Professors worldwide who do teach the correct view of
>>> infinity (if actual infinity exists at all).
>> Fortunately it's an optional course (at least it was) and your college
>
> It is not a college but the Technische Hochschule Ausgsburg (THA).

Why is college (or maybe technical college) not a good translation of
that term?

>> The harm
>> is very much limited.
>
> It is harm only for fanatic reactionaries who disregard mathematical
> proofs.

That was indeed the harm I was referring to.  But, as I say, limited
because none of your students are likely to become mathematicians and no
students at the college actually have to take your course.

Do you disregard this mathematical proof
https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/higher_math_online/section04.10.html
?

-- 
Ben.