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The Infinitesimal in Nature.--A copy of the Research University Record, Vol. I4, No. 3, recently has come to our notice. In it, PROFESSOR DRAPER describes: "How Inconsistent Use of Definition Defeats Science and Mathematics." Since a paradox represents the materialization of an inconsistency, this article contains many examples of mathematical paradoxes. Mathematicians and those who employ mathematics as a diversion should be interested in such freaks of faulty reasoning. The author points out the weaknesses or faults present in such proofs that: (I) There are no numbers greater than two; (2) There can be a continuous function without a derivative; (3) Three equals one; (4) Infinity squared is zero. C.
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- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)
- Published
- 1934
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)