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Fantastic Numbers, with Antonio Padilla

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Isninity a Number?

i love this question, because the answeris that it's both not a number, and lots of numbers hist a wonderful thing about infinity. We intuitively think, ifincy, we kind of think of like, i don't know, the infinite distance, you know, or infinite time. What we're really thinking there as we're thinking of it is like a limit, as something just beyond our finite round h That's what george cantor taught us how account beyond infinity. He met a lot of resistance when he was doing it. He actually, people thought he was crazy. And now all his ideas are really recognised for their genius.

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