The Infinium as a Bridge Between the Discrete and the Continuous: The RIT and Its Motive Structure (Why a Single Triangle Resolves the Oldest Paradox of Mathematics)

The problem of the relationship between the discrete and the continuous is one of the deepest and most painful in the foundations of mathematics. Classical approaches either postulate the existence of the continuum without explaining its origin, or reduce continuity to infinite constructions that cannot be verified constructively. This work proposes a fundamentally different solution arising from Δ‑ontology: the fundamental object is not a structureless point, but a structural quantum — the right isosceles triangle △₁ₓ₁ (the Infinium) with legs 1 and hypotenuse √2. It is this object, simultaneously possessing orthogonality, self‑similarity, and an irrational measure, that unites the discrete and the continuous in a single “bottle.” We show how the motive structure of the Infinium M(ℑ) = ℚ(0) ⊕ ℚ(1)[1] ⊕ ℚ(1)[√2] formalizes this unity, and how all number systems, geometry, and resolutions of famous problems grow from it, including the Millennium Prize problems, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and the Poincaré conjecture. The work demonstrates that the ancient paradox of the discrete and the continuous is not an insoluble contradiction, but merely a consequence of an unfortunate choice of primitive.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-08-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21996007
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History and Theory of Mathematics
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The Infinium as a Bridge Between the Discrete and the Continuous: The RIT and Its Motive Structure (Why a Single Triangle Resolves the Oldest Paradox of Mathematics)

Alexey (KAMAZ) Petrov, Email: [email protected] Saratov
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
History and Theory of Mathematics
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The Infinium as a Bridge Between the Discrete and the Continuous: The RIT and Its Motive Structure (Why a Single Triangle Resolves the Oldest Paradox of Mathematics)

Alexey (KAMAZ) Petrov, Email: [email protected] Saratov
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The problem of the relationship between the discrete and the continuous is one of the deepest and most painful in the foundations of mathematics. Classical approaches either postulate the existence of the continuum without explaining its origin, or reduce continuity to infinite constructions that cannot be verified constructively. This work proposes a fundamentally different solution arising from Δ‑ontology: the fundamental object is not a structureless point, but a structural quantum — the right isosceles triangle △₁ₓ₁ (the Infinium) with legs 1 and hypotenuse √2. It is this object, simultaneously possessing orthogonality, self‑similarity, and an irrational measure, that unites the discrete and the continuous in a single “bottle.” We show how the motive structure of the Infinium M(ℑ) = ℚ(0) ⊕ ℚ(1)[1] ⊕ ℚ(1)[√2] formalizes this unity, and how all number systems, geometry, and resolutions of famous problems grow from it, including the Millennium Prize problems, Fermat’s Last Theorem, and the Poincaré conjecture. The work demonstrates that the ancient paradox of the discrete and the continuous is not an insoluble contradiction, but merely a consequence of an unfortunate choice of primitive.

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