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Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila

The Numberphile Podcast

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What Is a Cold Set Theory?

A cold set theory is about dealing with infinity. One of these axioms says that there is a completed, infinite set of the natural numbers. That's sort of buying the land for your ultimate house. So really what you want is to understand properties of sets. And if you can interpret every mathematical object as being a set, what you're really studying is the mathematical universe.

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