“Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes” S:1 E:9 Impossible Sets

S:1 E:9 Impossible Sets Delve into Bertrand Russell’s profoundly simple paradox that undermined Cantor’s theory of sets. Then follow the scramble to fix set theory and all of mathematics with a new set of axioms, designed to avoid all paradoxes and keep mathematics consistent – a goal that was partly met by the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory.