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Cantor's first uncountability proof — Georg Cantor s first uncountability proof demonstrates that the set of all real numbers is uncountable. Cantor formulated the proof in December 1873 and published it in 1874 in Crelle s Journal [cite… … Wikipedia
Countable set — Countable redirects here. For the linguistic concept, see Count noun. Not to be confused with (recursively) enumerable sets. In mathematics, a countable set is a set with the same cardinality (number of elements) as some subset of the set of… … Wikipedia
Uncountable set — Uncountable redirects here. For the linguistic concept, see Uncountable noun. In mathematics, an uncountable set is an infinite set that contains too many elements to be countable. The uncountability of a set is closely related to its cardinal… … Wikipedia
Cantor's diagonal argument — An illustration of Cantor s diagonal argument for the existence of uncountable sets. The sequence at the bottom cannot occur anywhere in the list of sequences above. Cantor s diagonal argument, also called the diagonalisation argument, the… … Wikipedia
0.999... — In mathematics, the repeating decimal 0.999... (which may also be written as 0.9, , 0.(9), or as 0. followed by any number of 9s in the repeating decimal) denotes a real number that can be shown to be the number one. In other words, the symbols 0 … Wikipedia
Liouville number — In number theory, a Liouville number is a real number x with the property that, for every positive integer n, there exist integers p and q with q > 1 and such that A Liouville number can thus be approximated quite closely by a sequence of… … Wikipedia
Cantor's theorem — Note: in order to fully understand this article you may want to refer to the set theory portion of the table of mathematical symbols. In elementary set theory, Cantor s theorem states that, for any set A , the set of all subsets of A (the power… … Wikipedia
Finite intersection property — In general topology, the finite intersection property is a property of a collection of subsets of a set X . A collection has this property if the intersection over any finite subcollection of the collection is nonempty.DefinitionLet X be a set… … Wikipedia
Infinite divisibility — The concept of infinite divisibility arises in different ways in philosophy, physics, economics, order theory (a branch of mathematics), and probability theory (also a branch of mathematics). One may speak of infinite divisibility, or the lack… … Wikipedia
Cardinality of the continuum — In mathematics, the cardinality of the continuum, sometimes also called the power of the continuum, is the size (cardinality) of the set of real numbers mathbb R (sometimes called the continuum). The cardinality of mathbb R is often denoted by… … Wikipedia
