{"id":56,"date":"2004-12-22T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T23:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=56"},"modified":"2004-12-22T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T23:03:21","slug":"a-finite-discussion-of-infinite-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"A Finite Discussion of Infinite Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Devlin (British-born author of a number of interesting, well-written and highly recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/Author%3DDevlin%2C%20Keith\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a>) gives a 5-minute interview on NPR (a US radio station) about infinite numbers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cardinal_number\" target=\"_blank\">cardinal numbers<\/a> like <img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/c4e6eca6a7e1219d99edcc90ba9d3ba3.gif' title='\\aleph_0,\\aleph_1,\\aleph_2,\\dots' alt='\\aleph_0,\\aleph_1,\\aleph_2,\\dots' align=absmiddle> You can find the interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4234905\" target=\"_blank\">A Finite Discussion of Infinite Numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon Singh did a couple of series of short programmes about numbers on the BBC in March 2002 and October 2003. You can listen to his discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/science\/5numbers5.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity<\/a>; there are links there to the other broadcasts as well as to other Science programmes. Worth listening to.<\/p>\n<p>Some(6,7,8,9??) years ago there was a BBC radio series on the history of mathematics which was had me rolling about as it was so (intentionally) funny. Anyone remember it or know if it is available anywhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Devlin (British-born author of a number of interesting, well-written and highly recommended books) gives a 5-minute interview on NPR (a US radio station) about infinite numbers such as cardinal numbers like You can find the interview at A Finite Discussion of Infinite Numbers Simon Singh did a couple of series of short programmes about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}