Mark Dominus talks about ordinals

After slowly and carefully reading “Starting to understand epsilon-zero” by Mark Dominus, I definitely understand the fundamentals of set theory and ordinal numbers better than I did. But I must admit that the theory dances out of my grasp just before reaching the conclusion promised by the title. I don’t think that’s the article’s fault!

2026-07-12

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