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Paradoxes and Infinity Seminar

In this class we'll explore several popular paradoxes and attempt to wrap our brains around the world of infinity. For example, we'll discover a hotel that's never full: somehow, this hotel can always add another guest, or two, or three. We'll also run into paradoxes about goats, haystacks, pop-quizzes and more. If you're interested in mind-bending ideas and theories and have a background in basic algebra, this class is for you!

4 days

4 days  

Schedule

Mon, Tue, Wed & Thurs
Jun 26 - Jun 29
1:00 - 2:30
PM ET  
Jun 26 - Jun 29
1:00 - 2:30 PM Eastern
12:00 - 1:30 PM Central
11:00 - 12:30 PM Mountain
10:00 - 11:30 AM Pacific
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$130
$130
CLOSED
Mon, Tue, Wed & Thurs
Jul 24 - Jul 27
4:30 - 6:00
PM ET  
Jul 24 - Jul 27
4:30 - 6:00 PM Eastern
3:30 - 5:00 PM Central
2:30 - 4:00 PM Mountain
1:30 - 3:00 PM Pacific
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$130
$130
CLOSED
Fall 2023This course will be offered in Fall 2023. Click here to join our mailing list to be notified when the course schedule is available.

AoPS Holidays

There are no classes September 2‐4, October 31, November 20‐27, and December 21‐January 3, 2024.

Lessons

Lesson 1 Paradoxes in Philosophy
Lesson 2 Paradoxes in Mathematics
Lesson 3 Hilbert's Grand Hotel and Infinite Cardinals
Lesson 4 Zeno's Paradox of Dichotomy

I love how much content we are able to cover in this course! I also love the problem sets, which are fun exercises, and sometimes just food-for-thought (only when they stump me, of course). All in all, I really love this class. It opened a whole new door for me in the chemistry field and increased my eagerness to study further into the general area of chemistry.

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