Epstein Secrets

ain infinity to a child they immediately ask “What's infinity plus one.” A particularly smart kid I met, Dermot, asked, “What's infinity plus three?” Hilbert’s Hotel allows us to answer this problem in a way we can visualize. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015872 vhylbyyy | | tt tt VAVAVAVA A MY YI | i tt tt tt tt tT

eoretical footing. In the late 19" century, most mathematicians thought infinity was a curious idea with no proper place in mathematics. They treated Cantor's attempts to make it into a real mathematical object with contempt. This affected Cantor’s morale and caused him to suffer several bouts of deep dep

ou try it on your computer, you will get the not terribly useful, #DIV/0! Error. That’s progress I guess! Zero had been tamed. What about infinity? Cantor showed that while you could think of infinity as a number, it might not be just one number. He proposed there are many infinities. In fact, there are

rists do it by dominance or saddle points. Geometers do it with involutions. Geometers do it symmetrically. Graph theorists do it in four colors. Hilbert spacers do it orthogonally. Large cardinals do it inaccessibly. Linear programmers do it with nearest neighbors. Logicians do it by choice, consis

t with cardinals. Statisticians probably do it. Topologists do it openly, in multiply connected domains Variationists do it locally and globally. Cantor did it diagonally. Fermat tried to do it in the margin, but couldn't fit it in. Galois did it the night before. Mobil's always does it on the same

r the occupants of the bus is larger than infinity. Real Numbers What about the real world we live in? Is the larger infinity we failed to fit into Hilbert’s Hotel present, or was it just a mathematical fiction? Hold up your thumb and index finger for a moment. The gap between them is a distance. Most li

n't have to worry about turning the page or working in two dimensions. If you are worried that a tape is less powerful than a sheet of paper remember Cantor’s theorem: an infinite plane is the same as an infinite line. The use of a tape massively simplified the mathematics, and subsequently many early com