En Route for Infinity

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Alternative codes found
RIV/61384399:31140/17:00051307
Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
En Route for Infinity
Original language description
This paper presents the birth and development of the term “infinity” in mathematics and in philosophy. Infinity is an abstract concept describing something without any bound or larger than any number. Ancient cultures had various ideas about the nature of infinity. The route for infinity goes from Sumer in the 4th millennium B. C. via Greece (Pythagoras, Aristotle, Euclid – the Ancient Greeks did not define infinity in precise formalism as does modern mathematics, and instead approached infinity as a philosophical concept) to the 19th century Prague (Bolzano), Braunshweig (Dedekind) and Halle (Georg Cantor formalized many ideas related to infinity and infinite sets during the late 19th and early 20th centuries). The article ends in 1900 Paris, at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians, where David Hilbert announced his famous list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems, now known as “Hilbert’s problems” and in 1904 Heidelberg in the Third International Congress of Mathematicians, where Gyula Kőnig delivered a lecture where he claimed that Cantor’s famous continuum hypothesis was false. An error in Kőnig’s proof was discovered by Ernst Zermelo soon thereafter.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
The 11th International Days of Statistics and Economics (MSED 2017)
ISBN
978-80-87990-12-4
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
235-244
Publisher name
Libuše Macáková, Melandrium
Place of publication
Slaný
Event location
Praha
Event date
Sep 14, 2017
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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