irrational numbers
2 episodes mention this concept
lexfridmanDec 31, 2025The Nature of Infinity: From Ancient Greek Paradoxes to Cantor's Uncountable Sets and Hilbert's Hotel
ScienceSet theoryInfinity (potential vs. actual)Countable infinityUncountable infinity
lexfridmanSep 24, 2020James Gosling on Java, Early Computing, Emacs, and the Philosophy of Programming
TechnologyJava programming languageObject-oriented programmingSoftware engineeringConcurrent programming
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Concepts that appear alongside irrational numbers across episodes.
- concurrent programming
- algorithms and complexity (n log n)
- software engineering
- visual thinking (in programming)
- three-state logic (true, false, maybe)
- hilbert's hotel paradox
- countable infinity
- emacs (text editor)
- transcendental numbers
- assembly code
- arpanet
- uncountable infinity
- rational numbers
- business models (selling eyeballs)
- early social media
- disruptive innovation
- gödel's incompleteness theorems
- coding style (dense vs. verbose)
- co-routines
- set theory