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Richard Hammack’s Followers (12)
Richard Hammack
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Book of Proof
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published
2009
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5 editions
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Get Ready For Civil Unrest [Survivalist Magazine Issue #26]
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How to Survive By Bugging In! [Survivalist Magazine Issue #23]
by
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published
2015
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Be The Last Man Standing [Survivalist Magazine Issue #21]
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published
2015
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Handbook of Product Graphs
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published
2011
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6 editions
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“Mathematics is filled with such instances where it is important to regard one set as a subset of another.”
― Book of Proof
― Book of Proof
“In fact, any black-and-white image on the plane can be thought of as a
subset of R^2, where the black points belong to the subset and the white points do not. So the text “INFINITE” in Figure 1.4(c) is a subset of R^2 and therefore an element of P(R^2). By that token, P(R^2) contains a copy
of the page you are reading now.
Thus in addition to containing every imaginable function and every imaginable black-and-white image, P(R^2) also contains the full text of
every book that was ever written, those that are yet to be written and
those that will never be written. Inside of P(R^2) is a detailed biography of
your life, from beginning to end, as well as the biographies of all of your
unborn descendants. It is startling that the five symbols used to write P(R^2) can express such an incomprehensibly large set.
Homework: Think about P(P(R^2)).”
― Book of Proof
subset of R^2, where the black points belong to the subset and the white points do not. So the text “INFINITE” in Figure 1.4(c) is a subset of R^2 and therefore an element of P(R^2). By that token, P(R^2) contains a copy
of the page you are reading now.
Thus in addition to containing every imaginable function and every imaginable black-and-white image, P(R^2) also contains the full text of
every book that was ever written, those that are yet to be written and
those that will never be written. Inside of P(R^2) is a detailed biography of
your life, from beginning to end, as well as the biographies of all of your
unborn descendants. It is startling that the five symbols used to write P(R^2) can express such an incomprehensibly large set.
Homework: Think about P(P(R^2)).”
― Book of Proof
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