What is this talk/activity about?
We explore the definition of infinity and work through Cantor's proof that there are different sizes of infinity.
Age/Year Group
Key Stage 5 (Years 12-13, ages 16-18 years, including A Level study or equivalent)
UK National Curriculum Subject Links
Maths
Related Staff Member
Professor James W Anderson
Professor James W Anderson is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Southampton.
He is known for his work on spaces of deformations of Kleinian groups, which are discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic spaces, and on mapping class groups of hyperbolic surfaces. He is also the author of a popular undergraduate textbook on Hyperbolic Geometry.
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