3/28 – Ben Orlin: Numbers We Cannot Name

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NUMBERS WE CANNOT NAME

The number line seems simple. It ain’t. The riddles of the continuum have bugged Chinese philosophers, Argentine poets, Greek trolls, and 20+ centuries of mathematicians. We’ll explore the puzzles of the irrational, the transcendental, and the non-computable. Bad drawings copiously featured.