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The error of mathematicians is to think the real world is like the
mathematical world.
This is the error of many common people not of mathematicians
No professional mathematician will never claim that math has to do with real world
At the very beginning math have been created to solve concrete problems, ok, but very soon mathematicians, realized that the only way to get rid of paradoxes was the sharp separation of math and reality
If a mathematician claims that a certain theorem is "true" it means that it is "consistent"
Read the book "The infinite" by John D. Barrow
The author clearly explains the difference between the concept of infinite in math and in Physics
Last edited by AlbertoT; 09/21/07 17:47.
