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One controversy that has settled into the foundations of math was over what it means to use infinite sets, and comparing their cardinalities. I was unsettled wh
by imh 9y ago
One controversy that has settled into the foundations of math was over what it means to use infinite sets, and comparing their cardinalities. I was unsettled when I first encountered Cantor's diagonal argument to prove the reals are larger than the rationals, for example. Up until that point, infinite things were still just a kind of "and so on" instead of actual things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_th...