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 commented 12 years 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


4. andriy2991 commented 12 years ago
really really interesting,I like it....


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6. shayangx commented 12 years 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..
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..


8. seldomseen77 commented 12 years 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.


9. master_shake commented 12 years 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...


12. Limberg commented 12 years ago
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.
This is the same trick as in the X-factor episode, covering our eyes with the sad story and not showing the core.


14. ace543 commented 12 years ago
#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)

- http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Cantor%27s_theorem
(useful website too, like a video Wikipedia for most topics)


15. thorargent commented 12 years 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.


17. librabooks commented 12 years 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"! 

-11 1. ktg_5 commented 12 years ago