18.100A | Fall 2020 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Real Analysis

Lecture 3: Cantor's Remarkable Theorem and the Rationals' Lack of the Least Upper Bound Property

Description: Finishing the lecture on Cantor’s notion of cardinality and starting to define the real numbers. Introducing ordered sets, the least upper bound property, and the incompleteness of the rational numbers.

Speaker: Casey Rodriguez

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