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Cantor founded set theory and discovered that an infinite set can be in one-to-one correspondence with a proper subset of itself (for example, there are as many natural numbers as even numbers).
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11/3/2026
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How Does Infinity 'Destroy' Mathematics? Lex Fridman Podcast Reveals the Mathematical Crisis
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