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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Cantor's proofs

A lot of my precalculus students today didn’t like and/or didn’t believe Cantor’s proofs of the denumerability of the rationals and the non-denumerability of the reals. A few articulated their disbelief; most were quiet and attentive, but how many of them were silent disbelievers as well?

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