Lecture 6: The Uncountabality of the Real Numbers

MIT 18.100A Real Analysis, Fall 2020 Instructor: Dr. Casey Rodriguez View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-100a-real-analysis-fall-2020/ YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61O7HkcF7UImpM0cR_L2gSw We prove the humble, but powerful, triangle inequality, and show that the real numbers are uncountable, and thus the irrational numbers greatly outnumber the rational numbers. We introduce sequences and limits of real numbers. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments.