Hermann Weyl on intuition and the continuum (Q2701937)

A presentation of Weyl's arguments regarding the problems inherent in a construction of the continuum that would correspond to intuition, emphasizing that a certain position Weyl held is ``substantially more radical than that of Brouwer'', followed by the regret that Weyl did not live to see the emergence of the closest `symbolic construction' of the continuum, which would not be synthesized from points, namely \textit{smooth infinitesimal analysis} (cf.\ the author's [A primer of infinitesimal analysis (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge) (1998; Zbl 0904.26014)]).