
How Can Some Infinities Be Bigger Than Others?
The Joy of Why
The Concept of Sets
The concept of set kind of came about as a foundational concept because it's so basic and so primitive. The idea is that you then use sets to encode things like the counting numbers and things like the rational numbers and the real numbers and so on. From there all sorts of other more complicated mathematical constructions like manifolds or whatever.
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