The Numberphile Podcast

Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila

Aug 28, 2021

53:37

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The Power of a Set

01:43

How Much Can You Prove With Certain Axioms?

02:00

Did You Take Lessons From Your Career as a Professional Mathematician?

02:00

Introduction

2min

Why Did You Drop Out of High School?

2min

How Did You Come Back to Education?

2min

Is It the Military That Gives You That Freedom?

2min

Was It the Basics That Really Hooked You Back In?

2min

Why You Shouldn't Drop Out of High School

2min

Falling in Love With Mathematics at Universities

4min

What Is a Cold Set Theory?

2min

The Power of a Set

2min

10.

Are You Thinking, This Is It?

3min

11.

Do You Have a Crisis Yet?

3min

12.

What Is the Mistake?

2min

13.

Did You Take Lessons From Your Career as a Professional Mathematician?

2min

14.

How to Prove What You Didn't Know

2min

15.

Post Docks

3min

16.

Doing a Post-Stock in Mathematics?

4min

17.

Are You Like Checking Your Emile Every 20 Minutes?

2min

18.

You Don't Have to Wear a Suit

2min

19.

I've Been Doing Soe Number Fovidioing to Days.

2min

20.

Do You Want to Be Teaching?

4min

21.

How Much Can You Prove With Certain Axioms?

2min

22.

The Axiom of Choice

3min

23.

Set Theory Is Not Just Philosophy, Is It?

3min

From high school drop-out to set theorist, Asaf Karagila shares his journey towards infinity.

Asaf is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of East Anglia.

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With thanks to MSRI

This episode was also made possible by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship MR/T021705/1

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The Numberphile Podcast

Making Sense of Infinity - with Asaf Karagila

The Power of a Set

How Much Can You Prove With Certain Axioms?

Did You Take Lessons From Your Career as a Professional Mathematician?

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