Class 35: Cantor’s Paradise

11 April 2025

Schedule

  • Problem Set 8 is now posted and is due before 8:29pm on Thursday, 17 April: [PDF] [Template]

Class

  • Potential and Actual Infinities
  • Cantor vs. Aristotle, Aristotle, Kronecker, Poincaré, St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Leo XIII, etc.
  • English is a Disaster
  • Definiting Infinite, Countable, Uncountable, Countably Infinite
  • Proofs of Countability and Uncountability

10am Section: [Slides (PDF)] [Video]
2pm Section: [Slides (PDF)] [Video]