潜无穷与实无穷相遇大学校园中
(2019-01-06 23:11:47)潜无穷与实无穷相遇大学校园中
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A Comparison of Potential Infinity and Actual Infinity
Assistant Professor, Vimala College, Thrissur-9, Kerala, India
Abstract: Infinity is a useful concept of a process with no end. Sometimes its presence is explicit, sometimes it’s not explicit. Mathematicians consider two types of infinities, potential and actual infinity. The main purpose of this paper is to compare actual infinity and potential infinity.
Keywords: Actual infinity, potential infinity, infinitesimal, bigbang theory, steady state theory.
“Mathematical
infinity is taken from reality, although uncon sciously and
therefore it can only be explained from reality a nd not from
itself or from mathematical abstraction.”[1]
The concept of infinity appears in almost every field of mathematics. Sometimes its presence is explicit, sometimes it’s not explicit. Arithmetic and classical algebra deal with numbers. All the numbers taken together form infinite collections. In geometry, we encounter points on a line, lines on a plane, planes in space. These are not infinite in number, but are also in extent. The core concepts in Mathematical analysis are
limits,
continuity, sequences, series, differentiation, integration etc.
All these deals with infinitely
Mathematicians consider two types of infinities, potential and actual infinity. Potential infinity was accepted as a legitimate mathematical object by mathematicians and logicians. But actual infinity is not accepted until George cantor defined the concept. In schools, teachers try to convince students 0 1 is infinity(strictly for mathematicians
0 1
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