Infinitas plus unus

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Infinitas + 1 est locutio vel cogitatio faceta, saepe adhibita a pueribus et puellis, qui infinitatem nondum plene intellegunt, ut significent sententiam vel quantitatem "magniorem quam magnissimam".

Saepe sermonem quasi hanc pueri interdicunt, se provocantes:

Puer 1: "Te provoco ..!"
Puer 2: "Bis provoco ..!"
Puer 1: "Ter provoco ..!"
Puer 2: "Te provoco millione ..!"
Puer 1: "Te provoco infinitate..!"
Puer 2: "Te provoco infinitate plus unus..!"

Tamen in rebus mathematicis,:3. (-\infty) + x = -\infty \,, ergo (-\infty) + 1 = -\infty \,, ita sententia "infinitas plus unus" sensum nullum on facit.


[recensere] Notae

  • John Monaghan, Young Peoples' Ideas of Infinity, Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2001, vol 48, pp 239-257
  • Polly Shulman, Infinity Plus One, and Other Surreal Numbers, Discover, vol 16, iss 12, December 1995. [1]
  • David Tall, A child thinking about infinity, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, vol 20, iss 1, year=2001, pp 7-19 [2]


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