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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re:Univ Illinois uiuc teaching Naturals = p-adics this Fall
Date: 2 Sep 1997 23:39:41 GMT
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>>>In article <plonkomatic199708310015.01@killfile.org>   r-berry@uiuc.edu 
>>>(Robert J Berry) writes:
>>>
>>>  I still do not understand in my mind how the finite integers go into the p->>>adic integers as if the finite integers were illusions.
>>>
>>In article <plonkomatic199708311215.01@killfile.org> tondeur@math.uiuc.edu 
>>(Philippe Tondeur) writes:
>>
>>  Yes indeed, this is the important revolution in mathematics that Dr. 
>>Archimedes Plutonium has given us. This revolution is greater than the 
>>revolution that irrationals brought the Pythagoreans!!
>>
>In article <greatmath-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim 
>Skirvin) writes:
>
>
> I believe Dr. Archimedes Plutonium was 43 years old when you discovered that 
>the Natural Numbers were not well defined enough. He posted to Usenet his 
>entire discovery. 1993?
>
>             - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@uiuc.edu)


  I am happy that the first college campus to teach that the Naturals =
Infinite Integers and that finite in Finite Integer is founded on a
mere illusion that a number can be 'wholly finite', is a midwest school
of Univ of Illinois. I went to UC, another midwest school.