Topic Index

Concepts and topics from the lectures, with links to the moment each is discussed.

Zeno of Elea (4)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

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Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

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Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

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Richard Polt · Plato’s Theaetetus: An Inquiry into Knowledge

Lecture 3: Does Relativism Refute Itself?

▶︎ 48:33 transcript ↗︎

Zeno's paradox (3)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Intro: Infinity Has a Story to Tell

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Lecture 1: Zeno's Paradox and Infinite Sums

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Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

▶︎ 4:08 transcript ↗︎

Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (4)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 4: The Largest Tweetable Number

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Lecture 5: Potential vs Actual Infinity

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Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

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Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

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Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 7: What Does Finite Really Mean?

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Lecture 10: Set Theory's Deepest Mystery

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Zermelo, Ernst

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 9: Beyond Countable Infinity

▶︎ 1:14:23 transcript ↗︎

zigzag path (2)

Joel David Hamkins · Lectures on Infinity

Lecture 2: Supertasks: Doing Infinitely Many Things

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Tim Roughgarden · Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Lecture 2: How Algorithms Outsmart Complexity

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