2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction and historical remarks
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It will come as no surprise to the reader to note that the title “The Continuum” refers to
Hermann Weyl
’s renounced book on the continuum, and in fact: the author of this book, though light-years away from the mathematical and philosophical capabilities of
Weyl
, shares his scepticism about the foundation of analysis in the sense of
Georg Cantor
and
Richard Dedekind
.