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January 15, 2005
Number and Numbers
First part (introduction) of Alain Badiou's Le Nombre et les nombres (Seuil, 1990). Not sure what to make of this, a mixture of extremely pertinent and characteristically glacially-stated problems with troubling flavours of Heideggerian lament....The next part, Badiou's genealogy of number from Ancient Greece to Cantor, is promising.
Because B. is a showoff (although he passes the buck to Dedekind), this contains Greek letters, which may cause problems for some readers.
All vocab/translation suggestions welcome, you'll see clearly enough where they're needed.
Posted by undercurrent at January 15, 2005 03:16 PM
Comments
my dear friend, is it possible to use the Symbol font for the greek? i think you are using LucidaGrande? which i do not have so the greek is ... well, it's not greek. just a bunch of boxes.
Posted by: gwendolyn at January 16, 2005 07:42 AM
yes, Robin ... if you could use symbol font, it would be great; if it is not possible, you can convert it to pdf and embed the fonts.
Posted by: reza at January 16, 2005 12:17 PM