See, squares and rectangles have straight lines, so it’s easy to determine their area. A circle, on the other hand, left ancient scholars scratching their heads. One solution: infinity.

Beale was a math major in college and said she thought “Infinity” captured the almost religious zeal of people who devote their lives to the subject. She thought the movie did a good job of ...

“A good thing in [math] education would be to cut down the content a bit and savor these ideas,” mathematician Manjul Bhargava said during a Zero to Infinity live-streamed panel on the NOVA ...

“Leaning Towards Infinity: How My Mother’s Apron Unfolds Into My Life,” by Sue Woolfe. Vintage Books. 393 pages. $24.95. If you tilt the number eight on its side, its voluptuous c… ...