puzzling out the proofs for concepts so utterly fundamental to math by myself that it’s like if Genesis 1:3 was And God said, ‘Let there be integer,’ and there was integer

  • Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    i found out that cantor’s diagonal argument is more of a persuasive argument than an actual proof and it’s been sort of driving me a bit insane since. math is truly a perverse spiral.