[] Re: Interview with Manin ~~~> The Wand Chooses The Wizard
Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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Re: Interview with Manin ~~~> The Wand Chooses The Wizard At: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/interview_with_manin.html The best that I know from Galois is far too punny to be told in this 'hood, but it's said that Jeremy Bentham was a subprime mover of many billiards still in play when it comes to the care and selective breeding of fictitious entities. Quine's introduction to Whitehead and Russell (1910) contains a note on Bentham's notion of ''paraphrasis'' that may serve as a cue: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/propositions+as+types+in+combinatory+algebra#notes_23 When it comes to the special case of infinities as ideal entities, here's a summary thought from Hilbert that I recorded in my attempt to list a few speculative Precursors of category theory. http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/precursors#hilbert_7 http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/precursors Jon Awbrey, 09 Nov 2009, 12:36 PM http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/interview_with_manin.html#c029019 Incorporating the following correction: Jon Awbrey, 09 Nov 2009, 12:52 PM http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/11/interview_with_manin.html#c029020 -- inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]