The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng Mathematics can be thought of as many things: a language, a tool, a game. It might ...
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Mathematicians just discovered two new types of infinity, and they may break the rules of math
Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into ...
Infinity is an invaluable abstract concept in mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Isaac Newton used the abstraction of infinitely small times and distances to formulate the calculus upon which all ...
While the concept of infinity may seem mysterious, mathematicians have developed processes to reason the strange properties of infinity. Mathematician Emily Riehl has been challenged to explain ...
This is an installment of Reading Reddit, a Slate pop-up blog about Reddit. In the beginning, there was 1. Then, there was 2. Soon after that, there was 3, and 4, and ...
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