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    How To Count Past Infinity

    Vsauce

    6 HN recommenders · recommended in 8 months, 2016–2022

    YouTube

    23:46 · 30M views · Apr 9, 2016

    Vsauce's Michael Stevens takes viewers past infinity using transfinite numbers, ordinals and cardinals, with input from mathematician Hugh Woodin. It is a fast-paced, mind-bending tour of different sizes of infinity.

    HN recommends it as the most accessible introduction to what lies beyond infinity.

    Mathematics & Theoretical CSRecreational & visual mathLogic & formal methodsPure mathematics
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    10 comments from Hacker News

    1. @okketAug 2016· in “Life on the Infinite Farm [pdf]”

      My personal favourite to illustrate infinity (as possible) and some math concepts around it is still the video "How To Count Past Infinity" from Vsauce: this video "This is math, not science." (~12:30)

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @lasfterAug 2016· in “What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists”

      The issue is that there are different infinities. The infinity the parent is talking about, the one that you generally run into in calculus class and the like, is straightforward. The research in the past century was about what happens _past_ infinity, e.g. ordinal numbers. I'm no mathematician either, so I'll stop there before I embarrass myself. The most accessible resource I found was this VSauce video [1]. [1] this video

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    3. @cjslepSep 2017· in “Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal”

      There is one English definition of infinity, but when applied to ordinals ("degrees of freedoms"), you get different mathematical concepts of infinity. Vsauce's explanation is approachable: this video

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    4. @teh_klevAug 2018· in “Absolute Hot”

      Thanks for that, I hadnt' bumped into that channel before. After watching this one I watched the one on how to count past infinity....mind suitably blown :) this video

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    5. @okketApr 2016· in “The Man Who Knew Infinity”

      Completely offtopic, except for math and title, but highly recommended while waiting for the movie: "How To Count Past Infinity" this video

      RecommendsView on HN