infinity_2011_upg


infinity_2011_upg, "The Capture of Infinity", about Cantor's theory of infinity, given to the Student Mathematics Club at the University of Pittsburgh/Greensburg, 07 December 2011.

I first planned to give this talk to the undergraduate math club at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg (UPG), during a visit in November 2009, but my schedule didn't work out. I kept working on the talk with a view to a February workshop at Virginia Tech, to be associated with the Center for Talented Youth, (run through Johns Hopkins University), which would have involved an audience of sixth graders and their parents (!). The idea of having to speak about serious mathematics to such an audience suggested more strongly that I should keep working on the topic of infinity, an engaging subject whose paradoxes can be understood without a great deal of prerequisites. Alas, the CTY workshop was cancelled. I finally was able to give the talk at UPG after all, on 07 December 2011.

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Last revised on 04 February 2024.