Galileo argued that the giants of folklore, taking human form but at much larger scale, are physically impossible. Similar ideas will lead us to many other paradoxes of dimension.
Let us explore the nature of symmetry, beginning simply, but moving steadily to abstraction, eventually to the symmetries of the symmetries themselves…
Reaching into the higher infinite, we shall undertake various transfinite recursions—the alephs and the beths, the cumulative hierarchy, as well as some…
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What is the spectrum of possible behavior at infinity for a real-valued function on the reals? What are the possible rates of growth? What is the…
Is there any infinity strictly between the infinity of the natural numbers ℕ and the infinity of the real numbers ℝ?
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We shall fight the fearsome Hydra and in defeating it we shall see how the existence of transfinite numbers can have surprising consequences within the…
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Shall we count together in the ordinals? Let us venture into that transfinite realm beyond infinity. Is infinity even or odd? Can we count to an…
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Archimedes finds the area of a parabolic segment by exhausting it with triangles, anticipating key ideas of the calculus by two millennia. We shall…
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