The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

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Draw a diagonal line across a unit square. Its length is √2, roughly 1.414. Now approximate that diagonal with a staircase of tiny horizontal and vertical steps. Each staircase has a length of 2 - one ...

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