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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.
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| | A continuation ofthis, where I take notes on my workshop atHCSSiM. The real numbers are uncountable Today we used Cantor's diagonal argument to prove that the real numbers aren't countable. Namely, we assumed they were, and that we had a bijection $latex f: \mathbb{N} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and then proved it didn't contain the real number...
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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...
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