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Photographs

The Second European Set Theory Meeting: In honor of Ronald Jensen: Photographs


Books

Naming Infinity

The book

NAMING INFINITY

Religious mysticism and mathematical creativity

Harvard University Press, 2009.


has now a French edition:

AU NOM DE L'INFINI

Mysticisme religieux et création mathématique

Preface by Laurent Lafforgue (Fields Medal, IHES)

Belin/Pourlascience editor


The history of the birth of the descriptive theory of sets in France (Baire, Borel, Lebesgue) and Russia (Egorov, Luzin, Florenski), where it was influenced positively by the heretic mystic sect of Nameworshippers.

See: Naming Infinity

Orders in French: Au nom de l'infini: Order

Orders in English: Naming Infinity: Order

Booklet on infinity

A booklet in German on infinity: Das Unendliche

It contains some relevant articles, e.g. by Patrick Dehornoy.

Also in Spanish: Ideas del infinito.


Miscellanea

Mathematical infinity

Cantor's Attic: a comprehensive resource of information about the notions of mathematical infinity.

Battle between Hercules and the Hydra

The famous battle between Hercules and the Hydra where infinite ordinals are used for proving termination of the battle. Resources on the web which might be of interest here:

http://cage.ugent.be/zwc/logan/BuchholzHydraApplet/

this is by Andreas Weiermann's student Frederik Meskens

http://math.andrej.com/2008/02/02/the-hydra-game/

this is by Andrej Bauer

http://www.few.vu.nl/~ariya/app/hydra/hydra.html

and this is by Ariya Ishihara.


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