Lex Fridman
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Oh, gosh.
What's that proof look like?
How do you even begin?
I'm going to have to try to find a hole in that proof because there's a lot of baked in in the word interesting.
But yeah, that's beautiful.
That doesn't say anything about the transcendental numbers, about the real numbers.
Sure.
You've masterfully avoided the question.
You basically said, I love all numbers.
Yeah, basically.
That's my intention.
Back to Cantor's argument.
Let's go.
And so it's a kind of proof by construction.
You beautifully got rid of the zeros and the nines, therefore we don't need to even consider that, and the proof still works.
Exactly.
Can we just step back a little bit?
This infinity crisis led to a kind of rebuilding of mathematics.
So it would be nice if you lay out the things that resulted in.
So one is set theory became the foundation of mathematics.