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Comment by AndrewKemendo

7 hours ago

Hard disagree

I’ll go out on a limb and say the majority of HN users at this point do not know the context and implications of the impact of Cantor - would probably have only heard the name in the context of mathematics but no deeper

I’d go further and say the majority have not ever heard of the name Dedekind

I would assume that at least cantors technique of diagonalisation should have found its way into some CS course that I assume a good part of the audience here has studied? Considering that’s what Turing used to prove the undecidability of the halting problem.

  • Having been active on this website for 14 years now … At this point I would venture to say The median hacker news commentator does not have aa computer science degree