Distinction without a difference
A fundamental idea of symmetry is that one can artificially create a... Read more
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This is the video, not sure if they are ‘really’ there in the real world because of Planck length, but what would I know? Looks like in maths, you can have whatever you like – as long as it isn’t illogical. Hmm.
Mathematics doesn’t care if things are real or not real, surreal or hyperreal, what matters is, is it a good tool that lets you get closer to truth. Watch this for a simple description on how they can help people solve difficult problems.
More mind-bending miracles with the monad from Numberphile. These guys do all the stuff maths at school didn’t do, and should have.
Nice, and here is the link for a background on early infinitesimals and how they perplexed the learned in Greece… ” Zeno’s dichotomy paradox was the first mathematical concept to consider the relationship between a finite interval and an interval approaching that of an infinitesimal-sized interval.”