[thechat] Cantor Diagonal - was Math was Religion was Life, the Universe an d Everything

[Ben Dyer]

I'm curious.  What places are out there on the web that explain math like 
this in human terms?  I'm interested in these patterns and where do you 
learn about them?

--Ben

At 04:12 PM 5/24/2001, you wrote:
>Naw ... it's not a 'Barber of Seville' paradox or anything ... it's a proof
>by a really strange guy (Gregor Cantor) that the number of Real numbers in
>any given interval on a number line is strictly larger than the number of
>integers.  {A proof that there are an uncountably infinite number of Real
>numbers as opposed to a countably infinite number of integers.}
>...a whole lot more...

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