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Numberphile is one of those series that makes me like math again. That strange, crazy, extreme logic is just great. Then I try to work with it, and I am made gl
by Balgair 9y ago
Numberphile is one of those series that makes me like math again. That strange, crazy, extreme logic is just great. Then I try to work with it, and I am made glad that I didn't pursue that career.
I especially like the intro to Graham's number and the rough proof that it is unthinkably large, that your head would literally implode into a black hole an uncountable amount of times over.
Math is so boggling. Numbers that are literally super-natural exist and are 'useful' at the same time, yet are impossible to mortals all the same. It's this weird end-around we manage with math/logic. That 'floor falling out from underneath you' feeling, a happy giddiness and smallness.
Sorry, Graham's Number does something fierce to my head, it seems.