blackiris

Some Background I'm an MS Mathematics student here in the Philippines, studying in a fairly well-known university. With the grace of a government scholarship, I luckily didn't have to be employed to support

Sets Today, I'm going to talk about one of the most monumental result in set theory-- that some infinities are larger than some infinities. This statement is ambiguous of course, in what sense are we comparing

The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic In my previous post, I wrote a proof of the infinity of prime numbers, but I nonchalantly hand-waved a very important detail, that every integer greater than 1 has

I am a mathematics graduate student from the Philippines, and I figured out that this site is a good platform to dump my thoughts about mathematics (and possibly other geeky stuff). What I'm planning here