FOM: Aristotel's like-minded persons about Actual Infinity.

Alexander Zenkin alexzen at com2com.ru
Sat Sep 12 09:45:52 EDT 1998


As is known, Aristotel was the first person who explicitly and
definitely postulated: "Infinitum actu non datur".
I think it would be interesting (for different goals :-) ) to list all
his famous like-minded persons. Today, I have the following very
approximate beginning of such the list:

ARISTOTEL,  LEIBNIZ, GAUSS, CAUCHY, POINCARE, BROUWER, WEYL, LUZIN, ...

I would be very thankful for an addition of new names (it is desirable
with exact citations and references).

Thanks in advance,

Alexander Zenkin





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