This is a concept I can recall astonishing me, and also steering me away from majoring in math. I knew the abstract rabbit hole would go much deeper.
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This is a concept I can recall astonishing me, and also steering me away from majoring in math. I knew the abstract rabbit hole would go much deeper.
This isn’t a race to infinity you know! 😀
Heh. Learning that there are different sizes of infinities was a big part of the reason I decided to add a math major to my chem major. It turns out that I’m not quite good enough at advanced math to make a career of it, but given the relative employability of chemists and pure math majors, I wasn’t too devastated by that realization.
Not only did I find infinities interesting but infinitesimals too when I learned you could just drop terms in calculus when we studied limits.