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'Infinity' course with Joel David Hamkins

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FredJeffries

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Jan 8, 2023, 4:41:57 PM1/8/23
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Joel David Hamkins is offering a course titled 'Infinity' this Spring, 2023 term at Notre Dame University

<Course Description>
This course will be a mathematical and philosophical exploration of infinity, covering a wide selection of topics illustrating this rich, fascinating concept—the mathematics and philosophy of the infinite.
</course Description>

http://jdh.hamkins.org/infinity-university-of-notre-dame-spring-2023/

Course readings will be posted on his Substack site 'Infinitely More'

https://joeldavidhamkins.substack.com/

The first two readings are already there: 'The Book of Numbers' and 'Zeno's Paradox'

https://joeldavidhamkins.substack.com/p/the-book-of-numbers
https://joeldavidhamkins.substack.com/p/zenos-paradox

Chris M. Thomasson

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Jan 8, 2023, 4:52:21 PM1/8/23
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He has to show the following video to his students wrt the lexicographic
intro, just for fun:

https://youtu.be/rVtHrgdcvZA


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Jan 9, 2023, 5:23:38 AM1/9/23
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How do You rate this on 1....10 scale ?

FredJeffries

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Jan 13, 2023, 12:18:23 PM1/13/23
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Today's reading concerns 'The infinite coastline paradox'

https://joeldavidhamkins.substack.com/p/the-infinite-coastline-paradox
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Mostowski Collapse

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Jan 13, 2023, 2:38:57 PM1/13/23
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A Prototype of Koch Curve as a Prolog Notebook
https://www.dogelog.ch/littab/moblet/docs/10_novacore/02_scraping/example84/package.html

sobriquet

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Jan 13, 2023, 4:30:22 PM1/13/23
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It's cool to see such interactive books. I also like this one (though sadly it doesn't seem
like more chapters are appearing online..):

https://thebookofshaders.com/

sobriquet

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Jan 13, 2023, 4:35:41 PM1/13/23
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Though the interactivity of the course readings seem somewhat limited with static
graphics.. I prefer graphics like the example from Mostowski Collapse in this thread,
where you can actually modify the code to tinker around with it and observe how that
affects the results obtained.

Mostowski Collapse

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Jan 13, 2023, 4:41:00 PM1/13/23
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You can edit the grey areas and then press the play button again.

For example edit this here:

koch(225, 5)

Into this here and re-run:

koch(225, 7)

What happens?

But I havent produce many notebooks yet. Also the tooling to
make the notebook has not yet been release, should happen in
the next days. So more background about these Prolog Notebooks here:

Coastline Paradox as a Dogelog Notebook
https://qiita.com/j4n_bur53/items/57a4f058672bacbdaae3

Angel

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Jan 13, 2023, 4:43:39 PM1/13/23
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The only thing You need to know about it, is that we practically do not even exist. We are so fucking small.
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