Recent content by mklejeune

The two definitions are equivalent if the topological space in question is metrizable. I recommend proving for yourself that every metric space satisfies the Hausdorff axiom.

In general I tend to agree, though modern developments in philosophy (in those areas you mentioned) have done a good job of examining the "sense" of certain questions. For example, the question of "what was going on in the Universe before stuff started existing?" may be more of a grammatical...

For what it's worth, as someone with a copy of all the books mentioned so far (Landau, Lancsoz, Goldstein, Arnold) and still in the early stages of teaching himself the subject, I've opted to focus on completely digesting Mechanics by Landau/Lifgarbagez first. I find Lancsoz's book to be quite...