And if we don’t have those gaps, well, then every line we draw would have– I mean ... She’s author of the new book Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics. She’s a ...

The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it WHEN David Hilbert left the podium at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on 8 August 1900 ...

Well, unless you’re Buzz Lightyear, we know that’s impossible; you can’t go beyond what has no end. But the representation of infinity ... of zero radius. In math, we quantify the infinite ...

Cheng’s enthusiasm for mathematics is infectious and readers curious about the mathematics of infinity will find her to be a worthy guide. Agent: George Lucas, Inkwell. (Mar.) ...

IF YOU were forced to learn long division at school, you might have had cause to curse whoever invented arithmetic. A wearisome whirl of divisors and dividends, of bringing the next digit down and ...