Wednesday, July 27, 2016

RESOURCE FULL

The internet is about 90% garbage. It has the potential to be a universal library complete with downloadable PDF's of every piece of writing........fiction and non-fiction..........ever written. But copyright law is blocking the internet from being a universal library........from realizing its potential. Publishers block their content from being universally accessible via the internet. Some things are slowly changing........YouTube provides some content with 90% garbage and advertisements..........Imagine every piece of fiction and non-fiction writing downloadable as PDF documents.........and all recorded music downloadable as audio files.........etc. It should be a international project of the European and North American governments to create a copyright-free zone on the internet where it would establish a universal library...........But the professional writers and the artists and the musicians etc. would object to it fiercely probably. There is some information you can get from the internet........but it is vastly underachieveing its potential.

Sunday, July 10, 2016

TRANSFINITE NUMBERS

Georg Cantor was a Russian mathematician educated in Germany (1867-1918). He lived and worked in Germany I think. He discovered things about infinity, that there are different levels of infinity........or relative sizes of infinity in different contexts. He introduced the so-called transfinite numbers to describe relative sizes of infinity. He created the field of set theory and worked on problems about trigonometric series. David Hilbert........the leading mathematician of his day identified Cantor's work as at the top of mathematical discoveries of the period. Cantor appears to have had a wife and children and lived in a reasonable house all of his life. I think he inherited wealth from his family and worked for a time as a professor in Germany. The point is that Cantor suffered from mental illness.........it sounds like he had bipolar disorder. He was in and out of hospitals all of his life..........and things got worse as he grew older. Cantor exclaimed to his colleagues often that his ideas about transfinite numbers and levels of infinity were communicated to him by God......He had a kind of affectation about God that was related to his mental state.