Questions tagged [infinity]
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How can I familiarize elementary school students with infinities larger than $\aleph_0$?
Cantor's discovery of the existence of more than one infinity was a revolutionary change in human knowledge. He defined the notion of counting by bijections and showed that one can use infinities as ...
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Would teaching nonstandard calculus in an introduction calculus course make it easier to learn?
Nonstandard calculus is a reformulation of calculus that is based on infinitesimals instead of epsilon-delta definitions. Of course, people had tried to use infinitesimals in calculus before; in fact, ...
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