Re:Mathematicians don't care about foundations
by fpoling on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:29PM
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AC makes things much easier as it allows to play God powers. Negating AC is not significantly different from constructing mathematics that avoids AC (no assumption about validity of AC). And that makes things way harder with longer proofs and only in sub-cases of classical theorems.
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Re:Mathematicians don't care about foundations
by black_knight on Saturday December 20, 2025 @05:50PM
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Simply assuming the negation of AC is boring, as negations often are. But there are stronger statements, implying the negation of AC which might be as useful. I think for instance one could assume all subsets of the plane to be measurable. Seems convenient to me.
Same with law of the excluded middle. Tossing it out we can assume all functions are computable and all total functions in the real are continuous. Seems nice and convenient too!