Timeline for Reference for Diagonalization Trick
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| May 3, 2014 at 21:34 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 3, 2014 at 5:56 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | @FrancoisZiegler, it is one of the most stunning pieces of argument out there, so it is rather natural that its genesis attracts a lot of interest. | |
| May 3, 2014 at 3:39 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 1:56 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | @AndresCaicedo Thanks, I guess you mean the footnote on p. 365 of this long paper. You made me realize that there is a whole literature on this; e.g. the question whether du Bois-Reymond anticipates Cantor (or perhaps rather Ascoli) is interestingly debated here and here. | |
| Apr 27, 2014 at 2:33 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
avoid conflating the question's "trick" & "argument"
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| Apr 26, 2014 at 18:41 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | You may want to see this as well. Du Bois-Reymond's paper is from 1875, and it is a very similar diagonalization argument to the "trick" the question refers to. | |
| Apr 26, 2014 at 18:33 | history | edited | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2014 at 4:59 | history | answered | Francois Ziegler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |