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Originally Posted by sjastro
Unfortunately with country speed dial up I can't view the documentary but anything involving Georg Cantor would be very interesting.
From what I can recall from my Uni days Cantor came up with the concept of "countable" and "uncountable" infinite sets.
He also defined ideas that were intuitive but still difficult to comprehend due to the definition of infinity. For example the set of natural numbers and integers are both infinite sets but the set of integers contains twice as many elements...
Regards
Steven
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I think Robh also pointed this out recently, in the 'New Habitable Planet' thread.
Boltzmann's done himself in, too (I'm starting to see what Bert means).
They move onto Kurt Godel and Alan Turing.
Great doco.
Cheers