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Ep 13: Ch 8 "A Window on Infinity" Part 1

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Witgenstein's Poker

Witgenstein's poker is about the sole encounter that ever happened between two big names in philosophy, witgenstein and popa. In mathematics, infinity is studied by infinite sets, meaning sets with infinitely many members. For every member we can write down another member in the other set,. If we the three times tables, 3, six, nine, 12, et cetera. We'll never get to the end, but we're going to see in a very short moment that there are kinds of infinity that are bigger than other kinds of infinity.

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