Re: aleph-null versus aleph-one

[John Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

At 08:48 AM 8/15/00 -0400, David Bowman wrote that my post on the subject
got several key details "exactly backwards".  It appears that is the
case.  Good catch.  Thanks.

> a nice summary of this stuff is at: <http://www.ii.com/math/ch/> .

I find that reference more informative and more believable than the
references I was relying on, including
  http://noisefactory.co.uk/research/sci-math/topology/index.html
(noise factory, indeed! :-)

Also note that the Encyclopedia Britannica article on transfinite numbers
improperly assumes the generalized continuum hypothesis.

> Cohen's Field's Medal

I'd say he earned it.