We calculate all the time – to manage our time when shopping, eating, exercising and at work anyway: Mathematics has spread into everyday life in many different ways.
We are now even able to use mathematical ideas to build machines that can even carry out complicated calculations that people would not be able to do without these tools for a long time.
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Why is that?
What mathematical revolution took place beginning in 1870 and ending about a century later?
And what does that have to do with infinity?
Aeneas Rooch has a doctorate in mathematics and has just written a book about exactly that.
In this episode he talks about the most important mathematical thinkers of their time, about people like Georg Cantor, Bertrand Russel, David Hilbert or Kurt Gödel, about the difference between mathematics and arithmetic, about logic and more.