Agustín Rayo
Professor
Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://web.mit.edu/arayo/www/

Agustin Rayo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He works in the intersection of philosophy of logic and philosophy of language. The largest finite number ever named by a human being was named by Agustin on January 26, 2007. It is really big.

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Sizes of Infinity Part 1: Hilbert's Hotel

Part 1 of a pair. Agustin teaches us about some weird properties of infinity, using an example due to mathematician David Hilbert called 'Hilbert's Hotel'. He shows us a result proved by another mathematician, Georg Cantor: that many infinite collections of things are the same size. Things that a

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Sizes of Infinity Part 2: Getting Real
Rayo Getting Real
A Toolkit for Building a Better Mind.