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04-27-2005, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by AntonioLao
come to think about it, mathematics, from a point of view of number theory, is the most illogical study one can ever encounter. What i'm talking about is the existence of irrational numbers in between the rational numbers of positive and negative integers. And Cantor's transfinite numbers. He became insane studying them. And the most illogical, irrational and transcendental number is the number \pi, which is the ratio of the circumference of a circle over its diameter.
I have always thought like that. math is illogical, being logical. well, I am trying to immitate Bertrand Russell's deception in his study of the reduction of math to formal logic, and when he ended developing the paradox that has his name, disproving himself. Quote "Mathematics is in logic, logically, illogic." and in this site (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~...s/Russell.html). this is something on the web about him "In Principia Mathematica, Whitehead and Russell were able to provide detailed derivations of many major theorems in set theory, finite and transfinite arithmetic, and elementary measure theory."
  
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