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

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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 have been a cat lover ever since I can remember. Looking back, all my younger days at home had been filled with lots of fun (and chaos!!) with my furry pets. I remember that when I was a little girl,

There is an ancient belief in East Asia which says that people who are destined to meet in their lifetime are connected by invisible strings, linked through their ankles or little fingers. These people

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