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Do Points
Have Area? Subject: Points with no area Author: Jesse Yoder jesse@flowresearch.com Organization: Epigone Date: 10 Nov 1997 10:51:36 -0500 Candice - Your posting comes like a breath of fresh air. Could it be that, in reality, the emperor has no clothes? Certain ideas, such as those in mathematics that attempt to create a mathematics out of fictional arealess points, have become so deeply entrenched that it is difficult to even find an appropriate language to challenge them. How could it, after all, even be possible that all those calculus professors with tenure could be teaching a false philosophy? I am glad to hear that you are willing to say that these mathematical constructs such as arealess points and infinity make no sense, despite the centuries that "learned scholars" have spent repeating them and drilling them into students. Jesse
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