The next papers
belong to the old mathematics and from the point of view of the 7-layers, in
layer 6 and above. As I see it at the present time (2005) the value of using
infinity (besides its historic role of an earlier phase in the evolution of
civilization), is mainly that it permits a distance from the finite material
ontology, and permits free thinking which was felt better . Otherwise
practicing is hardly separated from thinking anymore and hinders thinking with
many emotional traps too Therefore infinity should not be taken
seriously in its literal sense, as a new different ontology as this
would lead to a collective paranoiac dead end without hope for practical
applications or with more and more difficult practical applications. Not to
mention that it would become like a "computer worm" a mental
seduction that would consume more and more time and would lead more and more
away from reality and life. In my way of appreciating it today infinite can be considered mainly as a
metaphor or "encryption code" of facts about the finite.
Probably facts about the finite that the civilization had
not been entirely ready at its time of introduction. Strange as it may
seem, it holds that ,the creative world of
finite has more choices and freedom for the mathematician, than the creative
world of the infinite. Although the initial impression was that G. Cantor was
leading mathematics to his paradise, it finally resulted to Cantor’s Hell. (Cantor himself, died mad in the sanatorium).
If we try to discover the closest concept to infinite in the world of
finite (as we shall see in the sequent) we immediately realize that infinite is
the totalitarianism in mathematics, while the world of finite permits real conceptual democracy of creativity. As any totalitarianism seems attractive and
might feel good at the beginning but sooner or later it results in to a totally
wrong and destructive role by its users.
1) Alternative algebraic
definitions of the Hessenberg
natural operations in the
ordinal numbers (1990)
2) Free algebrae and alternative definitions of the
Hessenberg operations
in the ordinal numbers . (1990)
3) ORDINAL REAL
NUMBERS 1. The ordinal characteristic.(1990)
4) ORDINAL REAL NUMBERS 2. The arithmetization of order types .(1990)
6)
Consistency problems and contradictions due to the additional axiom of ZFC-set
theory introduced by N. L. Alling in his book
"Foundations of Analysis over Surreal Number Fields"(1993)