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| | [AI summary] A mathematician connects Franz Kafka's theme of 'non-arrival' and infinite paradoxes to Georg Cantor's work on different levels of transfinite infinity and the diagonalization argument.
| | divisbyzero.com
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| | The study of cardinalities of infinite sets is one of the most intriguing areas of mathematics that an undergraduate mathematics major will encounter. It never fails to bring crooked smiles of joy, disbelief, confusion and wonder to their faces. The results are beautiful, deep, and unexpected. Recall that two sets have the same cardinality if...
| | theoremoftheweek.wordpress.com
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| | One of the intriguing facts about infinity mentioned in that Horizon programme (the one on recently thatI disliked) is that there are different sizes of infinity. I thought that this week I'd start discussing that fact. (There might be another theorem of the week on this subject!) Here are two questions for you to consider....
| | rugby843.blog
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| This is from Google, but thinking of Cee who had amazing photos!