Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jul 2009, at 04:15, m.a. wrote: - Original Message - From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 4:40 AM Subject: Re: The seven step series Hi Kim, Marty, Johnathan, John, Mirek, and all... Bruno: May I advise you about an

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jul 2009, at 09:09, Kim Jones wrote: On 14/07/2009, at 6:40 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: The intersection of the two sets S1 = {1, 2, 3} and S2 = {2, 3, 7, 8} will be written (S1 \inter S2), and is equal to the set of elements which belongs to both S1 and S2. We have (S1 \inter S2) =

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread John Mikes
*Please read between your lines included in bold* letters *John * On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 15 Jul 2009, at 00:50, John Mikes wrote: Bruno, I appreciate your grade-school teaching. We (I for one) can use it. I still find that whatever you

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jul 2009, at 10:40, Bruno Marchal wrote: snip So the subsets of {a, b} are { }, {a}, {b}, {a, b}. But set have been invented to make a ONE from a MANY, and it is natural to consider THE set of all subsets of a set. It is called the powerset of that set. So the powerset of {a,

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread m.a.
Bruno, I have no idea how to even begin to answer these questions. Have you given us the definitions we need to do so?

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jul 2009, at 15:17, John Mikes wrote: I would not restrict 'a set' to what WE can conceive, or define now. (Not even within the 'math'-related domain). Nor do I. I never say so. On the contrary we will see how different are sets when seen by machines and gods, but to explain this

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jul 2009, at 15:29, m.a. wrote: Bruno, I have no idea how to even begin to answer these questions. Have you given us the definitions we need to do so?

Re: The seven step series

2009-07-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jul 2009, at 16:06, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 16 Jul 2009, at 15:29, m.a. wrote: Bruno, I have no idea how to even begin to answer these questions. Have you given us the definitions we need to do so?

Dreams and Machines

2009-07-16 Thread David Nyman
With Bruno and his mighty handful engaged in the undodgeable (though constantly dodged) task of working towards an elementary grasp of the technical underpinnings of COMP, and patently lacking the fortitude of these valorous Stakhanovites, I have been spending my time lurking, reading and musing.

Re: Dreams and Machines

2009-07-16 Thread m.a.
David, I appreciated this post because I'm more interested in the philosophical implications (which I'm hoping to find at the end of Bruno's UDA bridge to Valhalla) of these goings-on ...than in the mathematical ones. Best,