What is the difference between transfinity and transfinite?
transfinity | transfinite | Related terms |
The quality of being transfinite.
* 2005 , Scarlett Thomas, PopCo (page 301)
Beyond finite.
(mathematics) Relating to transfinite numbers.
A transfinite number.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
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Transfinity is a related term of transfinite.
As nouns the difference between transfinity and transfinite
is that transfinity is the quality of being transfinite while transfinite is a transfinite number.As a adjective transfinite is
beyond finite.transfinity
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(-)- Then I think about Georg Cantor, burnt out at forty, and persecuted to the point of madness by people opposed to his ideas about transfinity .
transfinite
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(en noun)- An interesting and perhaps essential formal model of this quality is to be found in Cantor's concepts of infinite sets and transfinite cardinals. The laws of ordinary, inductive mathematics do not apply to these, for the 'least part' of such transfinites are equal to the whole, and convey their infinite (i.e. world-like) quality.
