black high hat, abracadabra. The Hebrew word for word, davar, also signifies thing. This view contrasts with the mathematical formalists, among them Hilbert, who considered the signifiers of abstract mathematics simply symbols used in a game, the rules of which being arbitrary, must include proofs of cons

r the occupants of the bus is larger than infinity. Real Numbers What about the real world we live in? Is the larger infinity we failed to fit into Hilbert’s Hotel present, or was it just a mathematical fiction? Hold up your thumb and index finger for a moment. The gap between them is a distance. Most li