Channel: PBS Infinite Series

Category: Education

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Description: Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: to.pbs.org/donateinfi Find out why Cantor’s Function is nicknamed the Devil’s Staircase. Try Skillshare at skl.sh/Infinite2 And check out the brand new PBS Digital Series Above the Noise youtube.com/channel/UC4K10PNjqgGLKA3lo5V8KdQ Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com Previous Episode Topology Riddles youtube.com/watch?v=H8qwqGjOlSE Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Ray Lux Made by Kornhaber Brown (kornhaberbrown.com) Cantor’s Function, also known as the Devil’s Staircase, is exceptionally strange. After mapping out Cantor’s Function, named after Georg Cantor, we find that its derivative disappears almost everywhere. Challenge Winner: Justin Wieland Honorable Mentions: Felix Beichler Andrew Weller Comments answered by Kelsey: Thomas Perry youtube.com/watch?v=H8qwqGjOlSE&lc=z13ncngjhwy5iv5tp23lungjrsbxyup0.1494583661471832 Ralph Dratman youtube.com/watch?v=H8qwqGjOlSE&lc=z13isv1g0krfg52ds235h1rbvqqtxndq204.1494681742451739