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It has been in the news recently — or rather, the small corner of the news that is of particular interest to mathematicians — that Maryanthe Malliaris and Saharon Shelah recently had an…
Two infinities that are surprisingly equal | Gowers's Weblog Gowers's Weblog Mathematics related discussions << Intransitive dice VII — aiming for further results A new journal in combinatorics >> Two infinities that are surprisingly equal It has been in the news recently — or rather, the small corner of the news that is of particular interest to mathematicians — that Maryanthe Malliaris and Saharon Shelah recently had an unexpected breakthrough when they stumbled on a proof that two infinities were equal that had been conjectured, and widely believed, to be distinc
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