Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Unintuitive Mathematics
Some mathematical methods can seem rather unintuitive in practice and worse, sometimes yield startling and uninintuive results - for example Goedel's incompleteness theorem and Cantorian set theory. Terence Tao continues his discussion of mathematical techniques in The “no self-defeating object” argument, and the vagueness paradox.
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