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Ideas from 'Letter to Shumacher' by Carl Friedrich Gauss [1831], by Theme Structure

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite
10855 Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound