• In mathematics, transfinite numbers or infinite numbers are numbers that are "infinite" in the sense that they are larger than all finite numbers. These...
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    defined the transfinite ordinal numbers and transformed the infinite indices into ordinals by replacing ∞ with ω, the first transfinite ordinal number. Cantor...
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  • numbers are a certain sequence of infinite cardinal numbers (also known as transfinite numbers), conventionally written ℶ 0 , ℶ 1 , ℶ 2 , ℶ 3 , … {\displaystyle...
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  • Transfinite may refer to: Transfinite number, a number larger than all finite numbers, yet not absolutely infinite Transfinite induction, an extension...
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    Transfinite induction is an extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets, for example to sets of ordinal numbers or cardinal numbers. Its...
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    general, but all its elements do.) Beth number Gimel function Regular cardinal Infinity Transfinite number Ordinal number Given the axiom of choice, every infinite...
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    realized as subfields of the surreals. The surreals also contain all transfinite ordinal numbers; the arithmetic on them is given by the natural operations...
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  • function F at a finite number of distinct points, these methods match F at a non-denumerable (transfinite) number of points. Transfinite interpolation is similar...
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    published a book about his new set theory, introducing, among other things, transfinite numbers and formulating the continuum hypothesis. In the 1960s, Abraham...
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    "Zur Einführung der transfiniten Zahlen" [On the Introduction of the Transfinite Numbers]. Acta Litterarum AC Scientiarum Ragiae Universitatis Hungaricae...
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  • number line. Aleph null Suslin's problem Transfinite number Weisstein, Eric W. "Continuum". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-08-12. "Transfinite...
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  • number Algebraic number Transcendental number Hypercomplex number Transfinite number Indefinite and fictitious numbers Mean Weighted mean Median Mode Range...
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    interest, a fact he was well aware of. Originally, Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers was regarded as counter-intuitive – even shocking. This caused...
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  • In mathematics, the epsilon numbers are a collection of transfinite numbers whose defining property is that they are fixed points of an exponential map...
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    cardinal number. This cardinal number is called ℵ 0 {\displaystyle \aleph _{0}} , aleph-null. He called the cardinal numbers of infinite sets transfinite cardinal...
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  • Transcomputational problem – Class of computational problems Transfinite number – Number that is larger than all finite numbers Zeno machine – Hypothetical...
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    Philip Jourdain (ed.). Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers. New York: Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-60045-1. {{cite book}}: ISBN...
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  • 879–90. doi:10.1137/0513062. Erdos, P.; Gillis, J. (2009). "Note on the Transfinite Diameter". Journal of the London Mathematical Society. s1-12 (3): 185...
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  • transfinite 1.  An infinite ordinal or cardinal number (see Transfinite number) 2.  Transfinite induction is induction over ordinals 3.  Transfinite recursion...
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  • {c}}=\beth _{2}} (beth two) Cardinal characteristic of the continuum "Transfinite number | mathematics". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-08-12. Weisstein...
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    hypothesis. Besides transfinite cardinals, there also exists transfinite ordinals, like described in Fast Growing Hierarchy. Transfinite ordinals operate...
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  • constructing models of set theory by repeating Cohen's forcing method a transfinite number of times. Iterated forcing was introduced by Solovay and Tennenbaum (1971)...
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  • less than α. Thus there is one set Vα for each ordinal number α. Vα may be defined by transfinite recursion as follows: Let V0 be the empty set: V 0 :=...
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    representing an ordinal number is well-founded, the set of natural numbers is one of them. Applied to a well-founded set, transfinite induction can be formulated...
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  • {\displaystyle \aleph _{0}} (the cardinal number of the infinite set of integers 1, 2, ...), the smallest cardinal transfinite number. The Jains also defined a whole...
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    [精密科学]; Prime number [素数]; Theory of quanta [素量説]; Algebraic number [代数的数]; Field of force [力の場]; Transcendental number [超越的数]; Transfinite aggregate [超限集合];...
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    proof theory). He adopted and defended Georg Cantor's set theory and transfinite numbers. In 1900, he presented a collection of problems that set a course...
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  • can continue it to infinite ordinal numbers via transfinite recursion, thereby obtaining the transfinite derived series, which eventually terminates at...
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    which is called transfinite induction. Given a property (predicate) ⁠ P ( n ) {\displaystyle P(n)} ⁠ depending on a natural number, mathematical induction...
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  • infinite number of functions. So instead let us merge the unary functions into a binary function. By transfinite recursion on α, we can use transfinite recursion...
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