Re: [HM] Shakespeare, Bacon, decimals and logarithms

Tony Mann (A.Mann@greenwich.ac.uk)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:22:11 GMT

> What did Shakespeare (Francis Bacon) know about decimals and logarithms?

Shakespeare also anticipated later developments in set theory. In
"Titus Andronicus" (if I remember correctly) he uses the phrase
"countless and infinite", which would have been tautologous had he
not been aware of the notion of countable and uncountable sets.

Tony

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