Sunday, June 1, 2008

Cantor's Aleph and Continuum

For us who may not be familiar with Cantor's Aleph, a brief description - Georg Cantor, a german mathematician, around late 1800, established an enumeration for infinite sets, and named them alephs.
His intution, though he couldn't prove it, that the total number of alephs are infinite and there is a definite order in which they all are arranged
where:
aleph[0] = set of all integers,
aleph[1] = set of all real numbers,
...,
aleph[aleph] = set of all alephs ( aka the GOD, if such an entity exists ).

and the proof of the ordering of aleph led to the famous continuum hypothesis. The rest is history.

There is a duality, left to imagination, of course, between the concept of alephs and the spectrum of human intelligence. The spectrum of human intelligence is likely to be infinite( IQ, EQ, BIQ, FIQ, MIQ... ). There seems to exist an ordering between these independent IQs, and apparently they lead us to believe that there is an Ultimate Intelligence, which encompasses all. But then thats better left to psychology or theology.

Talking of Financial Intelligence, our universities and curriculum has surely, failed to capture it. Why else do we have 7 college dropouts among top 10 Richest persons in this world ? Someday i'll figure out.
Pursuing my this fascination, I got involved with an innovative startup company, named 'Insight Guru Inc.' , which is being operated by an equally credible team. This team nurtures a concept to distrupt the process of financial analysis as is done today. Since my involvement with this team is very recent and brief, it may be unfair to disperse the information about it on a personal blog.

Still, I feel, this team and its product are at the edge of redefining the FIQ, for everyone as we know it. Keep an eye for this startup, if you are an investor or an analyst