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For a fictional, tripped-out exploration of the various levels of infinity, try Rudy Rucker's White Light:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Light_(novel)

I picked this up at a end of line book shop when I was 13 or 14, along with a bunch of other Wired Press books, and it blew my mind.

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I remember watching Open University program when I was about that age that worked through Cantor's diagonal argument - I vividly remember being spellbound that such a seemingly simple argument could has such a profound and counter intuitive result.

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