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How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise. The post How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

The Quanta Podcast

September 30, 202127m 44s

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For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.

The post How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. first appeared on Quanta Magazine