Infinity is bigger than you think - Numberphile

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as a clear introduction to different sizes of infinity that non-mathematicians can follow.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Numberphile

Topic

infinity and set theory

Format

explainer

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I teach high school math and science. I had a group of students do a mini-project around the question, "Is there anything bigger than infinity?" The core of the project was students watching this numberphile video [0], and recreating his reasoning on their own. That …

• I like the numberphile series on youtube. I showed one in class where he explains how some infinities are bigger than others. My non-math-inclined students were able to follow it by watching several times, because they could see the entire process. They re-created the process …

• Yes, because if there were such a list then you could assign a 1-to-1 mapping (by list index) of each number between 0 and 1 to a whole number which would prove they have the same size. If it is impossible to have a complete …