Brief thoughts – apropos of an ÉS’s article1 Abstract by a quotation: “In our time, the language of politics has become infected with obscurity and madness. No lie is too gross for strenuous expression, no cruelty too abject to find apologia in the verbiage of historicism. Unless we can restore to the words in our newspaper, laws, and political acts some measure of clarity and stringency of meaning, our lives will draw yet nearer to chaos. There will then come to pass a new Dark Ages.” / George Steiner, The retreat from the word, 1961 / ___________________________ 1 ÉS is the abbreviation of “Élet és Irodalom”, which is a literary and political weekly. After registration, you may ask for a…

New dimensions Abstract For a long time the science considered the mathematic infinite only quantitatively, but the experience did not confirm the actual existence of the quantitative infinite. In addition the order as the character of numbers was defined on the infinite in Cantor ordinal numbers beside the quantitative properties of the numbers, but the ordinal numbers do not qualitatively distinguish the infinite ones as well. As we modelled the specific type of mathematic infinite by the imaginary component of the two-element numbers, we set off on a way where the qualitatively different models of infinite meet our general experiences in the real world.   After registration, you may ask for a translation of the full text by email.