English Explanatory Dictionary

diagonal argument

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A proof, developed by Georg Cantor, to show that the set of real numbers is uncountably infinite.

Word forms

diagonal argument

Synonyms

Cantor's diagonal argument
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