Beautiful Young Minds - Part 1 of 6

http://documentaryparadise.com An extraordinary documentary following a group of young British mathematical geniuses as they compete for a place at the International Mathematical Olympiad. What makes this documentary so compelling is that all the participants featured in this documentary struggle with various levels of autism, Aspergers Syndrome and social awkwardness.

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Education

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• Beautiful
• Young
• Minds
• documentary
• autism
• aspergers
• syndrome
• maths
• mathematics
• IMO
• international
• mathematical
• olympiad
• bbc

[jerryteps]

"Gifted but not arrogant"

I lol'd.

[BrendanIsCool]

now ask them to tie their shoes or not be assholes at parties.

[Cammie010]

@Cammie010 that includes the powerset it would be {a,b, { a, b, {a,b}}, {a, {a,b,{a,b}}..and so on.  This infinite cardinality occurs due to the definition of universe being all elements in question (which includes powersets).

Now back to the conditional statement. P--Q only false if P is false and Q is true.

but Jos defined universe incorrectly, therefore P is false. So P is false and Q is false. Therefore P---> Q is true by vacuous truth. boom ;)

[Cammie010]

@Cammie010 Conditional Statements (P--->Q) are false if and only if P is true, and Q is false.

Since universe is defined as all elements in question, the powerset of the universe must be included in the universe (this is the part Jos failed to understand). The universe must than be a infinite countable set which satisfies the conditions for Cantor's theorem.

For example: Suppose I start with (a,b) as a set, if I wanted to make a universe

[Cammie010]

"If the universe is a set, the powerset is bigger (by Cantor's theorem).

==> its powerset only has sets relevant (no idea what he means by this). so it's a subset (the powerset is a subset) so its actually a contradiction because a subset can't be bigger."

No it is not a contradiction.

Let P = universe (set of all elements in question)

Let Q = powerset is bigger than the set.

"If the universe is a set, the powerset is bigger" is : If P ---> Q

(continued)

[Cammie010]

These goofy bastards.... :D :D :D

[Dannnytrules]

@BrendanIsCool no lets ask you to do the standard of maths they do...

[AgentGhost]

@BrendanIsCool

I'm pretty sure he can tie his shoes. He's not autistic autistic, he has aspergers.

[leesmithy7atgmail]

Omg I remember going to an IMO thingy in my country with my math friend for fun. Got two of the sums out by pure trial and error. Those sums were impossible :P

[1001014]

@BrendanIsCool I don't think they go to parties...

[7blekky7]

a film by Morgam MATHews

[Menegoth]

Wow Jos is such an autistic little cunt.