| | continuum hypothesis
came back from dinner last night and watched BBC Four's documentary about 20th century mathematicians. i wasnt sure exactly what i was watching since i was half asleep throughout the whole thing but one concept stuck in my head till this morning. georg cantor, a german mathematician, came up with this theory about infinity and does it exist? if you think about infinity, it never ends. and even if you can come up with the highest number possible you can think of, you can still add 1 and it will be that number +1. but between the digits 1 and 2 (or any number actually), there are decimals and fractions. so between 1 and 2 there might be 1.5 or 1.7 or 1.79982 and so on. but if you take that decimal further, you can still add another digit at the end of that and it could go on forever, like 1.79982937434564562343454354554656... thus making it infinite. it can literally go on infinitely. but is it really infinite when at the end of that infinite, there is that 2. there is an actual end to that infinite. or is there?
i dont know~ im just a designer. my shallow mind cannot comprehend theoretical mathematics. i cant even do my own design work correctly much less cantor's mathematics. for instance, i should be doing my final year project right now. and what am i doing? watching british documentaries on suicidal mathematicians and blogging about it on xanga.
on a different note, im trying to find time to edit shitloads of pictures of weddings, trips, and ooey gooey random goodness. and oh ya, happy ramadhan. |
| | Posted 9/15/2008 8:21 PM - 36 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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