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Cantor's Theorem (Proof)

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Oct 2, 2022
5:13

REMARKS 1. This has to be one of my favorite proofs. It manages to establish an interesting theorem with a short and elegant argument. 2. Terence Tao makes the following illuminating comment about this proof in his book Analysis I: "a bijection between X and 2^X would come dangerously close to the concept of a set X containing itself". 0:00 - 0:19 Intro 0:20 - 1:49 Injection 1:50 - 5:13 No bijection

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