Talk:Cantor's first set theory article/Archive 1: Difference between revisions

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Finally, I wish to thank all the people who have worked on this Wikipedia article. Without the excellent structuring of your article and the topics you chose to cover, I suspect that I would not have written anything. (This is the first time I've written for Wikipedia.) It's much easier to add and revise rather than develop from scratch. [[User:RJGray|RJGray]] ([[User talk:RJGray|talk]]) 23:30, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Rewrote the section "Cantor’s method of constructing transcendental numbers" and renamed it "Is Cantor’s proof of the existence of transcendentals constructive or non-constructive?" The old section did not explain this constructive/non-constructive controversy. The new section quotes mathematicians on different sides of the controversy, analyzes their versions of "Cantor's proof," looks at relevant letters of Cantor's, mentions some computer programs, and then shows Cantor's diagonal method in a simpler context -- namely, generating the digits of an irrational (rather than the more difficult job of generating the digits of a transcendental).

--[[User:RJGray|RJGray]] ([[User talk:RJGray|talk]]) 02:55, 5 August 2009 (UTC)