Speaker Name: Emilie Wiesner (ewiesner at ithaca dot edu)
Speaker Afiliation: Ithaca College
Abstract: The Cantor set is a specially constructed infinite set; it has earned its name from an appearance in an 1883 paper of the mathematician Georg Cantor. The Cantor set has many remarkable properties, and I will be talking about a few of them. In particular, I'll discuss how two ways of defining size ("measure" and "cardinality") lead to two very different ideas of how big this set really is!
Target Audience: The talk doesn't require any specific mathematical knowledge.
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