The God of Mathematics - Georg Cantor's Infinities
Short documentary about the greatest mathematician of the 19th century, Georg Cantor, who came up with the Continuum Hypothesis that will unravel the mysteries of infinity. Only Cantor thought god was speaking to him and saw himself as his messenger.
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3. loadrunner 250 days ago
You can take away 1.000.000.000 x 1.000.000.000 from infinity and the number is still the same. that big is infinity
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Anyone who likes this, search for "bbc dangerous knowledge". Brilliant documentary about how working on these sort of things drives you nuts... 
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6. Comment rated too low. Show this comment shayangx 250 days ago
Example of inifinity:
10 = 10 x 1
1 = 10x 0,1
0,1 = 10x 0,01
0,01= 10x 0,001
And you can infinitely go on like this..
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Very interesting. Umm, I wonder if fractals are similar to Cantor's continuum hypothesis? Any mathematicians here?
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8. seldomseen77 250 days ago
#7 One way of constructing a fractal is to repeat a simple step infinitely many times, so there is some link between the two, but in the general picture of maths, these two domains are pretty far apart.
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9. master_shake 250 days ago
By definition there should be infinite answers to any question involving infinity, and that is where he was able to disprove them as well. The continuum continues...
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This is a child's story, bla, bla, his social life, god, goes nuts, but where the hell is the MATH!? show me something exact about what he did, not all this gibberish.
This is the same trick as in the X-factor episode, covering our eyes with the sad story and not showing the core.
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I agree on the hypothesis that infinity is infinite, but on the other hand i don''t study mathematics. So i gues i shouldn't take part of the discussion anyway.
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#12 I agree completely, this might help a bit for a basic overview but they'll probably need to show proofs to really explain it, then explain the proofs, and explain their explanations... it just goes on and on 
- http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Cantor%27s_theorem
(useful website too, like a video Wikipedia for most topics)
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15. thorargent 250 days ago
The point is simple- infinity is not a number, it is a concept of being endless. Subtracting something from infinity is like subtracting something from green. Does not compute.
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16. Comment rated too low. Show this comment eyoda 250 days ago
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thats what I dont get as well.... Galileo said...... if you widen the circle you can see gaps between them. So its not infinite... COUNT THEM.
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17. librabooks 250 days ago
Take a completely black spot of paint on a piece of paper. Now add an infinitesimally small bit of white - it's still black. But do this an infinite amount of times and eventually things should come out "all white"!
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1. Comment rated too low. Show this comment ktg_5 250 days ago
-heads go "BOOM"