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Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila

The Numberphile Podcast

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Set Theory Is Not Just Philosophy, Is It?

The oldest, currently open problem in sa theory. People don't really know about that. Even if they do prove this, they use this kind of very non standard methods. But on the journey to to get there, so much amazing new mathematics was developed. It's pure math. It's just at the end of how abstract you can be and still do pure math.

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