I wish he would get back to the older kind of topics he picked. This whole paradox/abstract concepts/bizarre mathematics stuff is getting boring. At least for me.
I normally love to see Vsauce videos and wait for them each month but this is the first one I found myself skipping through parts of to see if anything was going to change before reaching the end.
i for one think this shit's really cool
while it's not practical knowledge, and the actual knowledge of aleph null and what have you isn't exactly ever going to be useful to anyone here, it helps an understanding of the basic sentiments behind our mathematics.
Aleph Null sounds like a great name for a video game character.
[QUOTE=pod;50100170]Aleph Null sounds like a great name for a video game character.[/QUOTE]
maybe a victim in an Ace Attorney case
[QUOTE=RaptorJGW;50099925]I wish he would get back to the older kind of topics he picked. This whole paradox/abstract concepts/bizarre mathematics stuff is getting boring. At least for me.[/QUOTE]
Without all these there would be no reason to science. I quite enjoy these but I am a nerd sooo that might be why.
It might even be what inspires people to try and solve these things leading to an even better understanding of the natural world.
I'm really glad that there are people smarter than myself to sort through all this higher math stuff.
I don't know if it's just my feeble, uneducated little mind or what, but I think it's really weird knowing that infinity isn't actually scientifically proven, and that space likely has an end (what would it be like?)
I just cannot even understand how there are orders of numbers bigger than the 'inaccessible number' which by definition you can never add up to even if you add infinitely many infinities
[QUOTE=RaptorJGW;50099925]I wish he would get back to the older kind of topics he picked. This whole paradox/abstract concepts/bizarre mathematics stuff is getting boring. At least for me.[/QUOTE]
I would welcome soething to do with fear ( like his creepy video )or more of his space videos
This touches on one of the fun concepts I've been fascinated by my whole life.
The concept of "infinity" itself is interesting, let alone the idea that two different "infinities" are different sizes. It always fascinated me as a kid that there's an infinite number of prime numbers out there(Theoretically) but that there's an infinite number of non primes as well, and there's more non primes than primes, but an infinitely equal amount of each.
That's a mind bending thought and it's nice to see someone else delve into in depth.
[QUOTE=pod;50100170]Aleph Null sounds like a great name for a video game character.[/QUOTE]
The game Valve was working on alongside Half-Life (at the time, Quiver) was called Prospero. The main character of the game was named Aleph, although I'm not sure if that included the Null.
So mathematics, or at least a part of it, is basically just philosophy but for imaginary stuff?
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;50108353]So mathematics, or at least a part of it, is basically just philosophy but for imaginary stuff?[/QUOTE]
Everything is philosophy.
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Except, maybe, where you don't have to think.
Neat, he mentions signal hill in Calgary. I drive by there every day, and having enormous numbers on the side of the hill is still a bizarre sight.
Something that is important to note is that this stuff [i] is [/i] practical. It's very important for probability (see [URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_surely]almost surely[/URL]).
Uncountable vs countable is one of those concepts that is crucial in many high level mathematical theorems and as a result trickles down into the other sciences.
[QUOTE=RaptorJGW;50099925]I wish he would get back to the older kind of topics he picked. This whole paradox/abstract concepts/bizarre mathematics stuff is getting boring. At least for me.[/QUOTE]
But isn't that the whole point of Vsauce?
I can see my house on this video from when he's zooming in on signal hill, cool
[QUOTE=Clovis;50108137]aleph null sounds more like a post-rock or post-metal band to me[/QUOTE]
well an "album" by Bull of Heaven called Aleph Null that has 1049 tracks, a minute and one second each, of cut up glitchy voices coming up to about 18 hours of noise
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