Cantor’s Paradise

@Cantor_Paradise

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 21

Popularized in the Academy Award-winning movie A Beautiful Mind, the Nash equilibrium is a solution concept for n-person games ift.tt/mpiNw5O

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · 6 h

"Everybody came in. I got up to give the lecture. I can still remember looking in front of me to see the envelope, and pulling out my notes, and the hand shaking — I can see it, the shaking hand because it was quite a thing.” ift.tt/cf32wlZ

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. “Everybody came in. I got up to give the lecture. I can still remember looking in front of me to see the envelope, and pulling out my…

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · 6 h

“There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov ift.tt/vzWnZXV

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. “There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · 14 h

What classifies a so-called "Black Swan" event? ift.tt/Xud63zM

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. Necessary and sufficient conditions

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 26

Gödel's demise was fraught with Pyrrhic irony: Unable to escape from the inner logic of his paranoia - to adopt, as it were, a "meta-theoretical perspective" - he succumbed to starvation in the grip of his obsessive fear of being poisoned. ift.tt/tsQwZpY

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. “Modern math’s absolute Prince of Darkness” — David Foster Wallace

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 25

This problem has a reputation for being one of the hardest, and perhaps the hardest, International Mathematical Olympiad problem of all time. You can solve it only using high school algebra. ift.tt/wC8esKu

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. Solving the Hardest Problem on the Hardest Test

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 25

Q: Do you think there will ever be a machine that will think like human beings and be more intelligent than human beings? ift.tt/6E1prfl

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. In a lecture held by physicist Richard Feynman (1918–1988) on September 26th, 1985, the question of artificial general intelligence (also…

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 24

The Best Books on the Golden Age of Quantum Physics👇🏼 ift.tt/VQHkmwK (Amazon Affiliate Link)

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 24

The Best Books on Game Theory👇🏼 ift.tt/MNT0GmH (Amazon Affiliate Link)

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 24

Imagine a square of paper lying flat on your desk. I ask you to close your eyes. You hear the paper shift. When you open your eyes the paper doesn’t appear to have changed. What could I have done to it while you weren’t looking? ift.tt/DZxMQin

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 24

A pilgrimage to Göttingen, Germany used to be imperative for serious mathematicians in Europe and the United States: ift.tt/uix7YlQ

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. The University of Göttingen

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 23

The Best Books on the Riemann Hypothesis👇🏼 ift.tt/sqxr27N (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. Around 2010, as an undergraduate in mathematics I fell absolutely in love with the Riemann hypothesis (RH), as one does. I spent Friday nights researching, reading and trying to understand this most...

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 23

What happens when logic goes wrong? ift.tt/JbTnx5I

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 23

Utilizing Turing and Church’s invention of computability we can devise the sketch for a computability proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem that is equally as strong as Gödel’s version, but much easier to deduce: ift.tt/KHQecpm

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. A computability proof of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem equally as strong as Gödel’s version, but much easier to deduce

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 22

"If you’ve ever googled topology, you will have no doubt encountered the animation of a doughnut morphing into a coffee mug" ift.tt/g14oVW3

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. An entry-level primer on “rubber-sheet geometry”

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 22

The Best Books about Richard Feynman👇🏼 ift.tt/poHEXeb (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. Hi there! As a writer I get a lot of milage from certain topics. Among these are Einstein, Turing, quantum theory, game theory and, Richard P. Feynman. Feynman as a person is essential beloved by...

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 22

The most famous open problem in mathematics, explained step-by-step ift.tt/YO0AIxP

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. It’s been called the most difficult problem in mathematics. What is the Riemann Hypothesis?

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 21

In a 1695 letter, l’Hopital asked Leibniz about the possibility that n could be something other than an integer, such as n=1/2. Leibniz responded that “It will lead to a paradox, from which one day useful consequences will be drawn.” ift.tt/y8PIqCK

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. “A paradox from which one day useful consequences will be drawn.” ~Gottfried Leibniz

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 20

The Best Books on Kurt Gödel👇🏼 ift.tt/OhXfQTS (Amazon Affiliate Link)

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von Neumann, Turing, Wiener, Cantor, Grothendieck,...

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Cantor’s Paradise@Cantor_Paradise · Jul 20

From GPS navigation to network-layer link-state routing, Dijkstra’s Algorithm powers some of the most taken-for-granted modern services ift.tt/xkwaCnS

Cantor_Paradise's tweet card. From GPS navigation to network-layer link-state routing, Dijkstra’s Algorithm powers some of the most taken-for-granted modern services…

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