Nieskończoność w matematyce. Zmagania z potrzebnym, acz kłopotliwym pojęciem

• Authors: Roman Murawski

Title variants

EN

Infinity in mathematics. Struggles with a necessary but troublesome concept

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Infinity has appeared in mathematics since the very beginning. Moreover the mathematical concept of infinity was and is connected with philosophical and theological concepts. The aim of the paper is to show how mathematicians struggled with this concept and how they tried to bring it under control.

Keywords

PL

actual infinity; potential infinity; set theory; infinitely small; infinitely large; cardinal number; ordinal number

• Publisher: Copernicus Center Press
• Journal: Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 55
• Pages: 5-42

Dates

published

2014-06-24

Contributors

author

Roman Murawski