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- adjective Of or pertaining to Georg Cantor (1845-1918),
German mathematician andcreator ofset theory .
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If the fitness landscape is "Cantorian" then RV+NS will work no better than random draw.
The Weasel Thread 2009
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If you read L&L, you will also have to endure words like “manifold” and “Cantorian structures”, but just thank your lucky stars you will not need to deal with “Hilbert Space” or “defined on a compact domain”. lucia
Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit 2007
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The motivation behind such developments is the idea that collections of quantum objects cannot be considered as sets in the usual Cantorian sense of
Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory French, Steven 2006
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With this view in place, Brouwer sets out to reconstruct Cantorian set theory.
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer van Atten, Mark 2005
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These scientists saw chaos theory as vindication of Quantum indeterminacy and Godel's Proof, promise of an open-ended universe, Cantorian infinities of potential ... chaos as * health*.
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Assuming non-Cantorian set theory, the shape contains a C infinity of points.
An Infinity of Points Stein, Howard 1988
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Assuming Cantorian set theory, a solid shape contains an aleph-one infinity of points.
An Infinity of Points Stein, Howard 1988
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T. Dantzig, Number, the Language of Science, 4th ed. (New York and London, 1954) emphasizes the mathematical development up to and including the Cantorian transfinite
NUMBER CHRISTOPH J. SCRIBA 1968
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Cantorian Set Theory and Limitation of Size, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Philosophy of Mathematics Horsten, Leon 2007
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And by the way, if you want to read scathing critiques of Poincare’s understanding of set theory (contemporary debates about Cantorian set theory led him to write Science and Hypothesis), read Grattan-Guinness’ book The Search for Mathematical Roots, and Garciadiego’s Bertrand Russell and the Origins of the Set-theoretic ‘paradoxes.’
Relativity Denialists: Like the Heads of the Hydra… « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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