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Wildberger has always been this way. Way back in 2007, Marc Chu-Carroll's "Good Math Bad Math" highlighted Wildberger: "This isn’t the typical wankish crackpottery, but rather a deep and interesting bit of crackpottery." In brief, Wildberger is clearly educated, but also clearly rejects axioms that mathematicians accepted a long time ago (infinite sets in this case):

"Dirty Rotten Infinite Sets and the Foundations of Math" http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2007/10/15/dirty-rotten-infinit...

Wildberger also wrote a book on geometry with nothing allowed but rationals. (Or something like that.)



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