{"id":225612,"date":"2025-11-21T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:07:37","slug":"a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science","title":{"rendered":"A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-bridge-links-the-strange-math-of-infinity-to-computer-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don\u2019t need to think about it when they\u2019re solving their problems. They can take it for granted that sets behave the way they\u2019d expect, and carry on with their work.<\/p>\n<p>Descriptive set theorists are an exception. This small community of mathematicians never stopped studying the fundamental nature of sets \u2014 particularly the strange infinite ones that other mathematicians ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Their field just got a lot less lonely. In 2023, a mathematician named <a href=\"https:\/\/bahtoh-math.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Bernshteyn (opens a new tab)<\/a> published a <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00222-023-01188-3\" target=\"_blank\">deep and surprising connection (opens a new tab)<\/a> between the remote mathematical frontier of descriptive set theory and modern computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don\u2019t need to think about it when they\u2019re solving their problems. They can take it for granted that sets behave the way they\u2019d expect, and carry on with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}