Splash Biography
FENG ZHU, ESP Teacher
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Major: Mathematics College/Employer: Princeton Year of Graduation: 2014 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)M205: Messing around with infinity in Splash Spring 14 (Apr. 26, 2014)
Did you know that there are smaller and larger infinities? Or that there is a meaningful sense in which infinity plus one is not the same as infinity? We will explore some aspects of how infinity is treated in modern mathematics and how it leads to somewhat counter-intuitive consequences ... including the result that a ball can be cut up into finitely many pieces and reassembled into two balls of the same size.
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