The website looks great!
All natural numbers are interesting because, if there were an uninteresting number, there would be a smallest one, and that number would be interesting by virtue of being the smallest uninteresting number.
(Easy) exercise: Show how Gene's argument fails in first-order logic. (Hint: Russell.) Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com>wrote:
All natural numbers are interesting because, if there were an uninteresting number, there would be a smallest one, and that number would be interesting by virtue of being the smallest uninteresting number.
-- Gene
________________________________ From: W. Edwin Clark <wclark@mail.usf.edu> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 11:20 AM Subject: [math-fun] Numbers Aplenty
Giovanni Resta's new website Numbers Aplenty<http://www.numbersaplenty.com/>is an impressive implementation of the old idea that every natural number is interesting. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
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