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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: You know, the integers (was: Re: Stupid question about FLT)
- In-Reply-To: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 21 Jul 1992 10:44:43 -0400
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.150931.22637@sics.se>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:09:31 GMT
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- In article <14h7srINNnjc@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.
- mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
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- >"You know, THE SETS."
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- More precisely, the cumulative hierarchy of sets. We learn about the
- natural numbers as generated from 0 by repeated application of the successor
- function at such an early age, at such a basic level, that it's all but
- impossible to make it clearer once we're spouting mathematics or philosophy.
- Set theory is a different matter: even today we can point to Zermelo's
- "Ueber Grenzzahlen und Mengenbereiche" as a presentation unequaled in
- clarity of the cumulative hierarchy of sets as a model of ZFC.
-