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Has infinite mathematics actually been useful for anything at all? I mean uncountable infinities, higher cardinalities, etc - not limits, and other 'pseudo-infi

• joshuata 10y ago
  Many of the ideas from infinite mathematics interact with finite mathematics in very interesting ways. For example, the traditional integral is the Riemann integral which cannot handle sets with too many (uncountably many) discontinuities. The Lebesgue integral loosens those restrictions by using measure to guarantee there aren't too many discontinuties. The Lebesgue integral, in turn, is used to integrate over function spaces, allowing for techniques like fourier transform and technologies such as mp3 encoding.
  • gugagore 10y ago
    Why does encoding of discrete-time signals have to do with Lebesgue integrals?