The Resource Approaching infinity, Michael Huemer
Approaching infinity, Michael Huemer
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The item Approaching infinity, Michael Huemer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Approaching infinity, Michael Huemer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. The book addresses these paradoxes using a new theory of infinity, which entails that an infinite series is uncompletable when it requires something to possess an infinite intensive magnitude. Along the way, the author addresses the nature of numbers, sets, geometric points, and related matters. The book addresses the need for a theory of infinity, and reviews both old and new theories of infinity. It discussing the purposes of studying infinity and the troubles with traditional approaches to the problem, and concludes by offering a solution to some existing paradoxes. -- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Approaching infinity
- Title
- Approaching infinity
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Huemer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. The book addresses these paradoxes using a new theory of infinity, which entails that an infinite series is uncompletable when it requires something to possess an infinite intensive magnitude. Along the way, the author addresses the nature of numbers, sets, geometric points, and related matters. The book addresses the need for a theory of infinity, and reviews both old and new theories of infinity. It discussing the purposes of studying infinity and the troubles with traditional approaches to the problem, and concludes by offering a solution to some existing paradoxes. -- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Huemer, Michael
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BD411
- LC item number
- .H84 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- Infinite
- Label
- Approaching infinity, Michael Huemer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 032773917
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137560865
- Lccn
- 2015040546
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Approaching infinity, Michael Huemer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 032773917
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781137560865
- Lccn
- 2015040546
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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