
How To Count Past Infinity
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Vsauce's Michael Stevens takes viewers past infinity using transfinite numbers, ordinals and cardinals, with input from mathematician Hugh Woodin. It is a fast-paced, mind-bending tour of different sizes of infinity.
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HN recommends it as the most accessible introduction to what lies beyond infinity.
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My personal favourite to illustrate infinity (as possible) and some math concepts around it is still the video "How To Count Past Infinity" from Vsauce: [VIDEO] "This is math, not science." (~12:30)
Read original comment ↗Completely offtopic, except for math and title, but highly recommended while waiting for the movie: "How To Count Past Infinity" [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗The issue is that there are different infinities. The infinity the parent is talking about, the one that you generally run into in calculus class and the like, is straightforward. The research in the past century was about what happens _past_ infinity, e.g. ordinal numbers. I'm no mathematician either, so I'll stop there before I embarrass myself. The most accessible resource I found was this VSauce video [1]. [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗There is one English definition of infinity, but when applied to ordinals ("degrees of freedoms"), you get different mathematical concepts of infinity. Vsauce's explanation is approachable: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗VSauce is a science channel which I find both entertaining and educational. Fun and fast paced and often mind-bending. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗(related - and I enjoyed the vibe he put into it): [VIDEO] - Vsauce's "How to Count Past Infinity"
Read original comment ↗Thanks for that, I hadnt' bumped into that channel before. After watching this one I watched the one on how to count past infinity....mind suitably blown :) [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Related (a bit of Cantor and Hilbert, no direct relation to Ramsey’s theorem): "How To Count Past Infinity" [VIDEO]
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