The Cantor Set: News

The Cantor Set changed its name for a day and performed as 'The Drips' at the Wisconsin Water Association Conference. Tony and Abigail have day jobs working with drinking water and are members of the Water Association. Dennis is on a citizens' advisory board to a water utility. So, we mixed music with the day job and performed in the exhibit hall at the conference. It was a lot of fun and all of our colleagues seemed to get a kick out of seeing us in a different context. Here's to clean water!!

Just one more thing about The Cantor Set and then I'll drop the subject. I just want to help you visualize what Uncle Georg was talking about. Think about the set of real numbers. They include any number like 42 and 1.333333. There are an infinite number of those critters. Now think about integers only. They are the numbers without decimal points like 1, 2, 3. There's an infinite number of them also, but there's less of them than the real numbers. Just blows your mind, doesn't it?

I will confess. I am not related to Georg Cantor. He was a mathematician (1845-1918) who realized that some infinite sets are larger than other infinite sets. This made Herr Cantor a very controversial figure. There were many tragic things in his life, partly because of the turmoil he caused in the mathematical world. I wish he could have lived to see how important The Cantor Set became with fractals and Chaos Theory.