Timeline for Most harmful heuristic?
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| Oct 6, 2017 at 5:27 | comment | added | Michael Cotton | Understandable. They often do a bad job explaining that any Cantor set is just an embedding of $2^\omega$ into the space. And it's not that hard to show later that this essentially all your proper closed subsets. :/ | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 6:45 | comment | added | The_Sympathizer | An animation would be better (now possible with computers). Zoom in on it and see that the seemingly-"interval" areas have holes, then zoom in on the seeming-"interval" areas there, and so forth, until one "gets the point". | |
| Feb 15, 2015 at 4:11 | comment | added | Vectornaut | I'm upvoting because until now I'd only ever heard of fat Cantor sets in passing, and if you hadn't said this, I probably would have been misled in exactly the same way you were. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 20:01 | history | undeleted | Kevin Teh | ||
| Apr 17, 2013 at 20:01 | history | deleted | Kevin Teh | ||
| Oct 29, 2009 at 0:34 | history | edited | Kevin Teh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 29, 2009 at 0:24 | history | answered | Kevin Teh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |