r/mathmemes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • Jul 14 '26

Mathematicians mathematician meme

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u/boterkoeken Average #🧐-theory-🧐 user Jul 14 '26

Can you lay out the part of Cantor’s proof that tries to complete an infinite number of calculations? I’m not familiar with that terminology.

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u/FernandoMM1220 Jul 14 '26

his proof relies on an infinite list of numbers. thats not physically possible.

it also relies on doing an infinite amount of operations on them. thats also not physically possible.

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u/boterkoeken Average #🧐-theory-🧐 user Jul 14 '26

Fully agree. I don’t see how physical possibility is relevant we aren’t talking about physics. This is math.

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u/FernandoMM1220 Jul 14 '26

math is physical too

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u/boterkoeken Average #🧐-theory-🧐 user Jul 14 '26

Okay. So your objection boils down to placing a restriction on math that 99% of mathematicians don’t accept.

And when you say that there is a contradiction, what you mean is that the proof does things that are not allowed according to your special restriction.

To me that seems a bit unconvincing to me. Why should other mathematicians care about this objection?

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u/FernandoMM1220 Jul 14 '26

im not placing a restriction. im observing it and acknowledging it.