And now for something completely different. I’ve had enough of blogging about the debt ceiling and US fiscal problems. Have some weekend math blogging. Earlier this year, as I was reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I got interested in mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, who appears as a character in the book. I looked [...]

Tags: Cantor, cardinality of the continuum, math, Petzold, set theory, Stephenson, The Annotated Turing, transfinite numbers, Turing
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