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How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?

The Joy of Why

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The Joy of Why is a podcast that takes you into some of the biggest unanswered questions in math and science today. In this episode, we're going to be discussing infinity. No one really knows where the idea of infinity came from, but it must be very ancient. How do mathematicians make sense of infinity today? Are there different sizes of infinity? Is infinity useful to mathematicians? And if so, how exactly?

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